"Commodore user" - årgang 1986 & 1987

Tidsskriftet "Commodore user" fra årene 1986 og 1987. Har 18 utgaver totalt.

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"Commodore User was launched in October 1983 with an initial preview issue in June 1983. Initially, the magazine contained information about in-depth computer information of its time, such as programming tutorials, machine code features, and business software reviews. The first issues were produced and written by editor Dennis Jarrett, writer and future editor Bohdan Buciak, and editorial assistant Nicky Chapman. Features were written by a range of contributors, and the issue sizes grew rapidly from 64 to 96 pages.

The first 12 issues of Commodore User were published by Paradox Group until September 1984; thereafter, publishing was handled by EMAP until the final issue in February 1990. Game coverage began to appear by the second issue. This consisted of a small section called Screen Scene from issue three. In 1985, the Commodore 64 became more popular. The amount of technical coverage decreased as gaming coverage increased. The circulation began to rise, and CU produced more color through the magazine. At the height of the C64's success, CU had a page count of 116.

In 1986, CU began to cover the new 16-bit computer: the Amiga. The magazine covered all the Commodore platforms, from the C16 to the Amiga. Circulation figures also showed an all-time high of over 70,000 for the 1988 period.

To establish that the magazine content was changing to include the Amiga platform, the magazine changed its title to "CU Commodore User Amiga-64" in the February 1989 issue. The Commodore User part was dropped quickly, and the name became CU Amiga-64. This period of the magazine was a transitional time between transferring coverage from C64 to the Amiga."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_User

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Commodore er et tidligere kanadisk dataselskap. Det ble grunnlagt i 1958 som skrivemaskinprodusent av polsk-amerikaneren Jack Tramiel. Commodore produserte fra 1970-årene små datamaskiner og lanserte i 1980 hjemme- og spillmaskinen VIC20, som solgte i to millioner eksemplarer på to år. Commodore 64 fra 1982 ble en formidabel suksess med 14 millioner solgte maskiner. I 1985 kom Amiga med det som da var enestående multimedieegenskaper.

Etter at Commodore mislyktes med lanseringer av nye maskiner, både for hjemmemarkedet og kontormarkedet, ble selskapet 1994 overtatt av tyske Escom. De nye selskapene Commodore (datamaskiner) og Amiga Technologies (produksjon og videreutvikling av multimediateknologi) ble etablert, men begge gikk konkurs 1997.