Commodore 65 (C64DX) for sale on ebay

[beller]

The thing I find interesting, and I'd never heard of the C65 either, is that the copyrights are 1990.  So, in the midst of attempting to mainstream the Amiga CBM was dumping resources into the next 8-bit machine?  Oh my....

Instead of focusing all their folks on pushing forward, CBM was busy reinventing the past.

[beller]

My god people. Knowledge about these systems was pretty common. Where have you been that you never heard of i

For instance. If I look at the prices of new PC hardware here in The Netherlands I can find about 30 webshops here in The Netherlands that are cheaper then EBay.

I think it's where we live, the US.  I don't recall hearing much about the 64 after the Amiga was introduced.  The World of Commodore shows I attended after '86 were strictly focused on the Amiga.

[beller]

Hell, apple did the same thing with the 2GS.  Atari was slinging out mini 2600's well into the 1990's.  Nintendo was selling the NES (not SNES) in the US until 1995.  

Fact is, well into the Amiga's life the C64 was still being sold and outselling the former.  It was still looked on fondly, and to be quite brutally honest I think a C64-like with a "desktop" OS running at 640x400x256 (which the C65 was capable of) probably would've kept Commodore around longer.

It's an interesting question as to whether the C65 would have helped CBM hang-on.  

Yes, I'm aware that Apple was pushing the IIGS (the Amiga Killer as I recall) and Nintendo was continuing to sell old products.  My point was that CBM didn't have an abundance of resources, certainly not to the level of Apple even back then.  Apple could throw off a few million pursuing side-projects and Nintendo and Atari didn't spend any resources in continuing to sell their old products.

I don't think anyone wants to argue that CBM spent their resources wisely, do we?