On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Kolbj=F8rn Barmen wrote:
> Uhm.. Commodore 64 is hardly dead, there are still people building hardwa=
re
> for it and new programs and OSes pops up all the time. You cannot even sa=
y
> that it is abandoned, as the people who do stuff with it today are very
> dedicated. The guy I share apartment with has a C64 buildt into a tower,
> featuring a IDE disk and CD-drive, CPU upgrade, I/O-card etc. etc. :)
I think what he meant is that it became dead as a revenue stream for
Commodore, because how could they get software developers for their
platform when those developers couldn't make any money because of the
pirates?
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