NAME  

C16 - C116

MANUFACTURER  

Commodore

TYPE  

Home Computer

ORIGIN  

U.S.A.

YEAR  

1984

BUILT IN LANGUAGE  

Commodore BASIC 3.5 - Built-in machine code monitor (12 commands)

KEYBOARD  

66 keys with 4 function keys and 4 cursor keys

CPU  

7501

SPEED  

0.89 MHz or 1.76 MHz

COPROCESSOR  

VIC-II (video & sound)

RAM  

16 KB (12 KB free for user)

ROM  

32 KB

TEXT MODES  

40 chars. x 25 lines

GRAPHIC MODES  

320 x 200 / 320 x 160 (with 5 lines of text) / 160 x 200 / 160 x 160 (with 5 lines of text)

COLORS  

121 (15 colors x 8 luminance + black)

SOUND  

two channels; 4 octaves + white noise

SIZE / WEIGHT  

40.7 (W) x 20.4 (D) x 7.7 (H) cm

I/O PORTS  

Tape, Cartridge, Joystick (2), serial, Composite Video, TV

BUILT IN MEDIA  

Cassette unit. Provision for 5.25

OS  

ROM Based

PRICE  

Ј129.99 (C16 starter pack)

 

Commodore C-16

Commodore C-16

 The Commodore 16/116 belongs to the Commodore 264 series (with the Commodore Plus/4). It was designed to replace the Commodore VIC-20, but it was not compatible with the VIC-20, or with the C-64.

It had the same characteristics as the Commodore Plus/4: same graphic resolution, same sound system, same CPU and speed, just less memory. It featured a version of the original 6502 CPU named 7501, and a new video


chip named TED. With 16 colors, and 16 shades of colors, it had an amazing 128 colors available. But it had no hardware sprites like the ones on the VIC II chip, so animated games and collision detection were very hard to do.

It has a powerful Basic language (contrary to the VIC-20 or the C-64), which makes graphics and sounds easy to program.

The C-16, like the Commodore Plus/4 was a commercial failure and had no success.

It seems that the first C16s had the two control ports labeled JOY 0 and JOY 1 instead of JOY 1 and JOY 2.

Note that as well as the C116, the C16 lacks a user port. Final assembly was done in Mexico by a company named Sigma.


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