(CNN)-- It may be hard to imagine life without that lightning-fast PC or Mac on your desktop with its 3D graphics and 200 GB hard drive, but the Commodore 64 used to be a top-of-the-line computer. CNN ...

Memory's a weird thing, isn't it? Your brain records every moment in your life and locks it away forever. And then suddenly, a sound, a smell, a piece of beige plastic can send you tumbling back to a ...

(CNN)-- Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64.

The Commodore 64 has, by modern standards, the interesting power requirement of needing both 5 VDC and 9 VAC. Traditionally, one would use an iron-core transformer to step-down the wall current ...

Editor’s Note 4/10/12: Jack Tramiel died on April 8 and will always be remembered as a computing industry pioneer and founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular PCs of all time ...

Microcontrollers are cool, but sometimes the user interface options they can deliver are disappointing. The platform in question may not have the horsepower required to drive a decent screen, and ...

Back to 1980s gaming, when it were all (blocky) fields round here. Cult of Mac: What does the C64 mean to you, personally? Stu from Manomio: My first computer was actually an Atari 800XL and this was ...

A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it's based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in ...

Fans of the original’s much-loved SID chip can now get their hands on a brand new take on the classic ...

Gee willikers, Batman, that's niche.

Scientifically speaking there is still plenty of time to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, but even if you’re returning stuff on Boxing Day, The C64 is a keeper. And it was understandable. This ...