Comments on: RUN: The magazine for Commodore 64, 128 and VIC-20 owners https://dfarq.homeip.net/run-the-magazine-for-commodore-64-128-and-vic-20-owners/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=run-the-magazine-for-commodore-64-128-and-vic-20-owners David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/run-the-magazine-for-commodore-64-128-and-vic-20-owners/#comment-56725 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:34:11 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36622#comment-56725 In reply to neo.

The 64, hands down. It’s what I grew up with. The 64 had much stronger graphics and sound, but a weaker CPU. The Coco had a great CPU that could do almost Unix-like things. If I’d been in college and studying computer science in the mid 80s, wanting to run sophisticated operating systems and compilers for different languages, I would have preferred the Coco, hands down. But I was a pre-teen who wanted to be able to play some cool video games in addition to learning computing, and the 64 had a huge selection of games available.

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/run-the-magazine-for-commodore-64-128-and-vic-20-owners/#comment-56720 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:26:39 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36622#comment-56720 do you prefer the Commodore 64, or Tandy COCO 3 512k?

512k > 64k

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