I worked at Berkeley Softworks when this was filmed. You can see some of the Apple ][ computers we used to develop the Apple ][ version of GEOS. The box with the strange ribbon cable was an in-circuit emulator - a box that would replace the CPU of the C64 or Apple II and debug programs much easier than if we'd written code straight on either computer. The officee pictured was the top floor of 2150 Shattuck Ave. (Former Great Western Building, then Powerbar building.) Most of the developers were just out of college (or still in college). At the time, we laughed at Brian Dougherty's comment about turing machines implying a C-64 could do whatever an IBM PC could do. He was right, though - if we wrote efficient code, we could do a bunch of stuff that folks assumed could only be done by an $x,000 computer.
@DingKong11 жыл бұрын
The C64 and ZX Spectrum were past their peak in '88 - but both were still very much in use and in demand. Nice vid.
@GerbenWijnja12 жыл бұрын
0:07 "New software titles still coming out" and now it's 2012 and new games are still coming out for the Commodore 64! Not as many as back in the day, but still every year a couple of new games are added to the list!
@AnalogX6413 жыл бұрын
I like some of the music that they used to produce for computer shows.