Mallala

Ernie Wagner, longtime Captain of the steamboat Delta Queen became Commodore Ernie Wagner in 1976 when the took charge of both the Delta Queen and her sister sternwheeler the Mississippi Queen, both of which then called Cincinnati their home port.

German model of the Commodore 64. More at www.nostalgianerd.com/the-commodore-64

PAckage Design Commodore

State Championships round 5 Mallala

Leaving Portsmouth

Another photo of a Commodore Amiga 500 personal computer.

Various model Commodores in a row. HDT Calais in front.The white car is one of the original Brock Commodores.

Masters of Mallala round 2 2016

Commodore MAX, the first C64 as sold in Japan

Canberra

Commodore Amiga 3000 Desktop, Motorola 68030 25Mhz, 1990

Everything's got a beginning. Maybe an end too.

Welcome to my Videogames Gallery, a journey through 20 years of passion and gaming.

Everything started 20 years ago with a Commodore 16, "the machine that changed my life".

Since it was lost (and wasn't mine, for that matter), I replaced it with a Commodore Plus4, which is almost the same stuff except that it carries 64k of Ram memory (instead of 16) and has a slightly better keyboard layout. Games are exactly the same for both machines, but 64k's ones only run on Plus4.

Commodore thought it was a good idea making a new, unexpensive, ready-to-use machine, so they put 3 programs (a word processor, a spreadsheet and a graphic calculator) and a debugger into a rom chip inside the computer, and made a new, flexible basic language. Although very powerful, the machine suffered the lack of a dedicated graphic and sound processor, and software support was awkward to say least.

American audience didn't forgive that, and was pretty disappointed because Plus4 was a great chance to improve the milion-selling Commodore 64. They started to tease the machine calling it "minus 60" (one of the funniest computer jokes I've ever heard, indeed) and after a couple of years completely forgot the P4.

Europe was a little more tender, and Commodore 16 and Plus 4 actually sold pretty well, expecially in eastern countries, where computers were almost unknown and too expensive.

I am especially fond of this machine, because it was my first gaming experience, when I was six. Now I'm searching the web for my favourite cassettes, Reach For The Sky, Ikari Warriors and Demolition, hoping to find them at a fair price.

Holden VK Commodore at the 2007 Shannon's Wheels car show, on the lawns of Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia

Commodore Ferries Freight/Passenger Ferry departing from Portsmouth for the Channel Islands.

IMO 9201750

Built 1999 Van der Giessen de Noord, Netherlands

14,000 grt

5Jun2010

Astoria, Oregon

Ex Highway Patrol, 5litre auto.

"the personal color computer with ARCADE GAME EXCITEMENT"

It's too bad I was going 90 mph when this photo was taken, that was a pretty funky sky.

22nd June 2018 Guernsey

Leaving St. Peters Port

IMO: 9117985

Name: COMMODORE GOODWILL

MMSI: 309536000

Vessel Type: RO-RO CARGO

Gross Tonnage: 11166

Summer DWT: 5215 t

Build: 1996

Flag: BAHAMAS

Home port: NASSAU

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