Software was the edge

This is one of the reasons for the huge success of the Commodore 64. With it’s powerful graphics and sound processors it was a perfect platform for games and it gave programmers a strong platform to developed all sorts. Of the more famous ones one could mention:

• Archon: The Light and the Dark (1983) – A mythical battle chess,
• Impossible Mission (1984) - A platform action game,
• Pitstop II (1984) – A car race simulation,
• Elite (1985) – A space simulation game,
• Leaderboard Golf (1986) – A sport simulation,
• IK+ (1987) – A fighting game,
• International Soccer (1983) – A soccer simulation,
• Grand Prix Circuit (1989) – Formula One,
• Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (1990) – An adventure/RPG,
• Creatures 2: Torture Trouble (1992) – A platformer.
• Mayhem in Monsterland (1993) – A platformer.

A contester to the micro computer was IBM’s so-called Personal Computer or PC although is was much pricier and did not find it’s way into normal homes straight away. was a much began to change as the new IBM PC entered the market. The IBM PC used a software operating system. This had to load on startup, but made it easier to update - simply because you did not need to buy a completely new piece of hardware. The OS was called MSDOS, this was short for Micro-Soft Disk Operating System (yes, they used a dash in their name in the early days). The code was based on the UNIX operating system although greatly simplified.