The keyboard layout differs slightly from the earlier models, adding an escape key and four cursor keys replacing the shifted-key arrangement the C-64 and VIC inherited from the PET series. Outwardly the C16 resembles the VIC-20 and the Commodore 64, but with a dark-gray case and light-gray keys. It was a failure on the US market, but enjoyed some success in certain European countries and Mexico. Timex's and Mattel's computers were less expensive than the VIC-20, and although the latter offered better expandability, a full-travel keyboard, and in some cases more memory, the C16 offered a chance to improve upon those advantages.
The computer was intended to compete with other sub-$100 computers from Timex Corporation, Mattel, and Texas Instruments. With two-channel sound and a palette of up to 121 colours, several well-known programmers worked wonders with the machine.
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It had the same characteristics as the Commodore Plus/4 : same graphic resolution, same sound system, same CPU and speed, though with less RAM (16 instead of 64 Kb.) and lacking the user port, and Three plus one software. An enhanced BASIC with built-in commands for graphics and sound made programming easier.
Often reffered to as the C64’s ‘baby brother’, the C16 was a good entry-level machine in the mid-1980s. The Commodore C16 is a home computer made by Commodore International released in 1984 and intended to replace the VIC-20.
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