12th edition of the Secret Weapons of Commodore

After an unacceptably long hiatus and several days of round the clock work, the 12th edition of Secret Weapons of Commodore has been released. Secret Weapons of Commodore is a repository site for rare, unusual, prototype or vapourware Commodore computers and peripherals, focusing primarily on 8-bit systems, with photographs and contemporary literature references where possible. The URL is http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/ New entries: * the Drean Argentine remixes (thanks Pablo Trincavelli), with pictures; * the Norwegian 3032 and 128DCR (thanks Asbjorn Djupdal), with pictures; * the Swedish PET 200 (thanks Anders Gronberg), with pictures; * the Commodore "MIDI Keyboard" (thanks Holger Karlson); * the 1582 (thanks James Crook); New pictures: * complete pictures of the Ultimax (from my own unit), as well as additional pictures from Dan Benson; * additional pictures of the V364 (thanks Dan Benson); * additional pictures of the 232 (Dan again); * additional pictures and commercial blurbs of the VIC-1001 (Dan encore); * complete (and real this time!) pictures of the Lorraine boards, taken at VCF (in Dale Luck's possession); * complete pictures of the Swedish 3032 (thanks Peter Karlsson); * keyboard pictures of the Swedish 128DCR (Peter again); * the awful Swedish localization stickers (Peter encore); * internals of the Sound Sampler (thanks John Selck); * a screenshot of the 65 Burn-In board at work and an updated screenshot of the 65 intro screen (thanks Moise Sunda); * better picture of the 65 RAM expansion (thanks Riccardo Rubini); * picture of the C116 box (yours truly); * press clipping on the Music Maker (thanks Todd Elliott); Updates: * significant rewrites for clarity/accuracy of the Amiga early days; * updated current history of the Amiga and Commodore brand names, along with the C-One and DTV (thanks Jeri Ellsworth); * the TV Game series' technical data as evidenced by the Coleco Telstar; * notes on the C65 board, firmware and chip revisions (thanks Anders Carlsson, Riccardo); * another possible HHC-4 sighting in the Toshiba IHC-8000 (thanks Scott Jones); * information on the disk version of the SFX software; * the Music Maker seems to be an Incredible Music Keyboard clone (thanks Todd); * a little more history on the SX-500 (thanks Dale); * early specifications of the Lorraine; * the 364 does not have the same vocabulary as the Magic Voice (thanks Bo Zimmerman); * notes on the Ultimax's expansion port and rewrites for clarity; * Michael Tomczyk seems to call the 364 the "MAX"; * where the Sound Sampler's creator is now; * custodial updates to the 900, Golden 64, and Colour PET/TOI pages Please continue to submit any updates, sightings and corrections. The URL, as above, is http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/ -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here? -- Harold Urey, Nobel laureate -----------