In January 1981, MOS Technology, Inc., Commodore's integrated circuit design subsidiary, initiated a project to design the graphic and audio chips for a next-generation video game console. Design work for the chips, named

Commodore MAX
In 1982, Commodore released the Commodore MAX Machine in Japan. It was called the Ultimax in the United States and VC-10 in Germany. The MAX was intended to be a game console with limited computing capability and

CPU and memory
The C64 uses an 8-bit MOS Technology 6510 microprocessor. It is almost identical to the 6502

• List of Commodore 64 games
• History of personal computers
• IDE64 – P-ATA interface cartridge for the C64

In 1982, the C64's graphics and sound capabilities were rivaled only by the Atari 8-bit family and appeared exceptional when compared with the widely publicized Atari VCS and

Commodore 64 emulators include the open source VICE, Hoxs64, and CCS64. An iPhone app was also released with a compilation of C64 ports.

References
1. ^ "World of Commodore Brochure" (PDF). Pcmuseum.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2017.