Commodore Plus/4

Summary

Commodore planned the Plus/4 as a cost-effective successor to the Commodore 64. The cost-effective production costs could be realized by reducing the chips; thus video chip, sound chip and IO chip were merged into a new processor (called TED). But this also started the disadvantages: Bad sound, no sprites and the peripherals were not compatible with the popular C64. Also the faster processor, the many colors, the better BASIC, more memory for the BASIC programs and the four enclosed programs of an “Office Suite” (text processing, spreadsheet, database and graphics program) — which gave the Plus/4 its name — could not help.