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Commodore MAX Machine

Commodore 8-bit · 1982

Commodore's forgotten Japanese-market games machine, sold briefly in 1982 with cartridge software, 2K of memory and no way to expand. Its real significance is architectural: it is the direct ancestor of the C64, sharing the VIC-II and SID, and C64 cartridges will run on it. Very few were made and it is among the rarest Commodore machines of any kind.

As catalogued

Maker
Commodore
CPU
MOS 6510-1.02
Memory
2K
Styles
MAX Machine (Japan), Ultimax, VC-10
Regions
PAL, NTSC
Chassis
small console with a membrane keyboard
OS
cartridge only

Chips

3
CPU
MOS 6510
VIC-II
MOS 6566, MOS 6567
SID
MOS 6581

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