The Commodore Plus/4 Thread

[TL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNJC3AguGdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cezpoPX4sB8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjvZoeQ-j0

[TL]

Couple of amazing demos here that I came accross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5L2XQiCblA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJSJzclwVB4

[zapiy]

Wow they are awesome.

[onthinice]

Not familiar with the plus/4. I do like what it can accomplish.

[TL]

Not familiar with the plus/4. I do like what it can accomplish.

It is basically a cut down version of the C64 with more colours but only 16k of memory.

[onthinice]

Ok. Was it sold worldwide or just in certain regions?

[TL]

My mistake, the Plus/4 actually had 64k of RAM. I was getting it mixed up with the Commodore 16, it could play all C16 games.

It was released worldwide, the wiki page gives a good summary - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Plus/4

The computer did look pretty cool I think, much better looking than the C64:

[AmigaJay]

Yeah I really like the design, a lot better than the C16, C64

[onthinice]

That is a neat looking computer. The C64 looked better when they remade it closer to the C128 instead of the Vic-20.

[TL]

There is actually a whole website devoted to the Commodore Plus/4

http://plus4world.powweb.com/

[onthinice]

Thanks Laird! I will give it a check.

[Katzkatz]

I did have a friend from primary school that owned one.  I can only remember playing the flight simulator 'ACE' on that.  Nothing much else springs to mind. 

It seems to be over shadowed by Commodore's other machines(namely the Vic 20, C64 and Amiga).  So does the C16 as well. 

[Havantgottaclue]

There was a very impressive shooter being made some time ago for the Plus/4 called XeO3 - but I couldn't find any evidence of progress since about 2008. Admittedly, I didn't look very hard.

Anyway, here's what it looked like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27tpOod364

[Rogue Trooper]

Ohhh.Loved the look of that shooter!.

My only 'concerns' players ship looked very sluggish-Maybe it's like Delta? slow ship until you pick up 1st speed up power-up?. (Did'nt watch video through to the end mind).

And music, whilst superb, perhaps a little too jaunty for this type of game?.

[TL]

Very impressive indeed!