publication_date law of the west
Commodore International ( or Commodore International Limited ) was a North American home computer and electronics manufacturer . Commodore International ( CI ), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), participated in the development of the home  personal computer industry in the 1970s and 1980s . The company developed and marketed one of the world ' s best - selling desktop computers , the Commodore 64 ( ___MASK83___ ) and released its Amiga computer line in July ___MASK76___ . Guinness World Records , known from its inception in ___MASK46___ until ___MASK2___ as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous U . S . editions as The Guinness Book of World Records , is a reference book published annually , listing world records and national records , both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world . The book itself holds a world record , as the best - selling copyrighted book of all time . As of the 2017 edition , it is now in its 63rd year of publication , published in 100 countries and ___MASK78___ languages . The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums . The popularity of the franchise has resulted in " Guinness World Records " becoming the primary international authority on the cataloguing and verification of a huge number of world records ; the organisation employs official record adjudicators authorised to verify the authenticity of the setting and breaking of records . The Commodore 64 , also known as the C64 , C - 64 , C = 64 , or occasionally CBM 64 or VIC - 64 in Sweden , is an ___MASK75___ - bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International . It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest - selling single computer model of all time , with independent estimates placing the number sold between 10 and 17 million units . Volume production started in early 1982 , marketing in August for . Preceded by the Commodore VIC - ___MASK70___ and Commodore PET , the C64 took its name from its of RAM . It had superior sound and graphical specifications compared to other earlier systems such as the Apple II and Atari 800 , with multi - color sprites and a more advanced sound processor . Edgar Noel " Ed " Bogas ( born February ___MASK9___ , ___MASK82___ ), sometimes credited as Edward Bogas , is an American musician and composer whose work has been featured in films , animations , and video games . The IBM System / 360 introduced byte - addressable memory with ___MASK75___ - bit bytes , as opposed to bit - addressable or decimal digit - addressable or word - addressable memory , although its general purpose registers were 32 bits wide , and addresses were contained in the lower ___MASK79___ bits of those addresses . Different models of System / 360 had different internal data path widths ; the IBM System / 360 Model 30 ( 1965 ) implemented the 32 - bit System / 360 architecture , but had an ___MASK75___ bit native path width , and performed 32 - bit arithmetic ___MASK75___ bits at a time . The Commodore PET ( Personal Electronic Transactor ) is a line of home / personal computers produced starting in ___MASK87___ by Commodore International . A top - seller in the Canadian and United States educational markets , it was Commodore ' s first full - featured computer , and formed the basis for their entire ___MASK75___ - bit product line , including the Commodore 64 . The first model , which was named the PET 2001 , was the third personal computer ever made available to retail consumers , after the Apple II and TRS - 80 . The VIC - ___MASK70___ ( Germany : VC - ___MASK70___ ; Japan : VIC - 1001 ) is an 8 - bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines . The VIC - ___MASK70___ was announced in 1980 , roughly three years after Commodore ' s first personal computer , the PET . The VIC - ___MASK70___ was the first computer of any description to sell one million units . Law of the West (         R obu za Uesuto : Seibu no Okite ) is a computer game for the Commodore 64 , the Apple II family and the NES . It was one of Accolade ' s launch products and is the only game in Accolade ' s history to be designed by Accolade co - founder Alan Miller . Graphics were by Mimi Doggett and the music was by Ed Bogas . The game is a kind of graphical adventure game taking place in the American Old West . In Scandinavia the game was published by American Action . Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in ___MASK87___ , and becoming common during the 1980s . They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that , for the first time , were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user . These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business , scientific or engineering - oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC , and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability . However , a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers . Their most common uses were playing video games , but they were also regularly used for word processing , doing homework , and programming . Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in ___MASK58___ , currently by Atari Interactive , a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari , SA ( ASA ). The original Atari , Inc . founded in ___MASK58___ by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney was a pioneer in arcade games , home video game consoles , and home computers . The company ' s products , such as " Pong " and the Atari ___MASK65___ , helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid - 1980s .