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Added line for inclusion in "Home computer" list

I added Category:Home computers as the last line of the article so that the Commodore 64 will appear in the Category:Home_computers list. The process is a black box to me, so if I did it wrong, please correct. Oh, and post here what I did wrong. UrQuan3 (talk) 15:24, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You did nothing wrong, but it's already categorized in Category:Commodore 64 which in turn belongs to Category:Commodore 8-bit computers which is then part of Category:Home computers. --Zac67 (talk) 15:46, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Color RAM question?

How is it possible that with 512 bytes of color RAM 40x25 characters (1000) are stored and each character? needs 1 byte for 2 colors of the 16 palette, 4 bits are necessary for each color, therefore the color RAM should be at least 1000 bytes. Hooankee (talk) 04:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hooanke: As detailed in the article, the color SRAM (2114) is 1024x4, sufficient for 16 foreground colors for 40x25 characters (with 24 nibbles unused). --Zac67 (talk) 08:07, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I said 2 colors each 8x8 cell, you need double memory. This is the same memory you need for 4x8 with 4 colors, you still need a full 1Kb. Hooankee (talk) 02:42, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

success in germany and north european markets

the article is informative and faithful concerning sales in usa uk japan and france. however nothing about germany (a big market) and northern european countries where imho, c64 was selling well and where the demoscene and hacker community emerged 2A02:8440:5402:C686:0:41:EB11:3F01 (talk) 04:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

27 million units sold?

David John Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, gives a much greater number than other estimates:

I can tell you categorically that the number was just a tad under 27 million. I can tell you that because, when we were thinking about doing a management buyout, we got access to all the figures.

From this article. -- 2804:D4B:79CE:9100:1CD9:B22B:C494:C830 (talk) 06:44, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]