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Mismanagement happened. From what I understand anyway.
I rememeber a few alternative platforms that didn't last - the Amigo, OS 2 - Warp, Xenix, CPM.
Windows won because people are stupid.
Amiga ! Amigo.
Windows won because it was easy to steal. Take away all of the unlicensed Windows installs, and their user base would be cut in half.
The C128 had a bunch of software that was written for the C64, but only ~100 titles appeared for the "native" C128. It wasn't a better gaming machine (the main reason people bought C64s) and was an underpowered business PC. The C128s ran outdated software, and as the PC's got better software, the C128 would just let you play old C64 games with no improvement.
The C128 sat between the home computer and the business computer and eventually fell through the cracks. Commodore couldn't decide if they were going to push the C128s or the new "Amiga" computers. They lost too much momentum, and both failed.
You all are joking, right? I'm providing the Internet to the Western Hemisphere off the back of my trusty C256, which owes a deep, deep debt of innovation to the C128, and all you can do is carp about a slightly overstated advertisement from 1982?
Commodore didn't fail: it went underground.
You just wait till the C512 makes it out of development. It comes with its own monitor and has a built-in cradle modem.
Then we'll see who is laughing then.
No respect. No respect at all, I tell ya.
They're not dead! http://www.commodoreworld.com/ Seriously! I don't know anything about the current Commodore OS but I'm curious. My husband thinks the Commodore 64 is still the greatest thing ever. As well as the Amiga.
I convinced my parents to buy a C128 back in the 80s, and at the time it was a choice between that, the TRS-80 with no graphics and not even a disc drive option (but it had cassettes) and the Apple stuff that was only affordable to educational institutions who received a huge discount. The Commodore was a pioneer in the field of PC gaming, as well as piracy, and I learned a ton about both with it. It was also wickedly fun to program, with a versatile native BASIC language that offered a lot in the way of sound functionality and graphics that were great for the time.
In the time before the Internet, this was one of the best. Why did it fail? The company bought Atari and failed to keep pace with the console revolution brought to our shores by Sega and Nintendo.
There will always be a place in my heart for the C128 (although, truthfully, you had to start it in C64 mode to play almost every game), but this nostalgia is probably on par with how we think of old cartoons. Keep them in your memories, if you go back and watch Thundercats now you will be sadly disappointed.