In 1989, Commodore's UK subsidiary had the idea to market a console based on the already six-year-old C64. The development based in the US developed this console - despite doubts - in record time of a few days: They simply installed a C64C board in a console case. The cartridge port was turned upwards, making modules easier to swap. In addition, a few components were omitted, such as the serial port. A connection of a floppy disk drive was therefore not intended, although the technology of the C64 would support this. Also datasette and userport are still present on the board, however, the case prevents them from being used. Apart from the cartridge port, only connections for two joysticks, the power supply, the video output and the TV modulator remained. The keyboard was simply omitted and cannot be connected externally. Since it is not possible to use BASIC, Commodore has designed an animation that warns against swapping cartridges when the device is switched on. Although you can start all C64 carts, you cannot use some because of the missing keyboard. Since a complete C64 was only slightly more expensive, but did not have all the above limitations, the console became a flop. Therefore, only a few C64GS ("Games System") systems were sold, mainly in the UK. Of assumes 80,000 produced consoles, only 20,000 were sold. The boards of the remaining consoles were removed and the cases itself were later sold off very cheaply.

Technically, the C64 GS is similar to the normal C64 models. There is also a portable computer called SX-64 and the 4064, a version in a PET/CBM case intended for schools.
















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