Description taken from the dedicated Bo Zimmerman's V364 page, where to also find pictures and more info about it: "The top of the Commodore 264 Series line was to be an amazing computer indeed. The V364 would offer its 64K of RAM (60K available for BASIC), enhanced video, speech abilities, and a wide assortment of pending productivity packages to take right up where the Commodore 64 left off. Unfortunately, this formula was not quite what Commodore wanted to go to market with. Whether it was the cost structure, or the fear of too many computer models aimed at the same audience, Commodore decided after its introduction at the 1983 C.E.S. to leave the V364 on the shelf.
One of the 264 series project managers, David Haynie report to me that only one or two V364 prototypes were made for the C.E.S. Another Commodore engineer informed me that their brittle cases are most likely due to them being from a soft tool; tools that started as a wood mold and cost about $40k. Only one was made with production quality plastic, and the project manager himself went home with that one, so obviously I own one of the show models. Mr. Haynie eventually sold his to another collector. A third and last one is probably still in the hands of the other engineer on the project. "
TED Speaks Documentation
This archive contains data previously available from stefan-uhlmann.de. This site is defunct as of February 2017, but may still appear via the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20131206092645/http://www.stefan-uhlmann.de/cbm/MVM/Speechdata/index.html
The native V364 word list is courtesy Bo Zimmerman and Richard Atkinson, and archived by Cameron Kaiser: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/364words.txt
The Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module manual was converted to HTML by doj of Cubic: http://www.cubic.org/~doj/c64/magic.html
Archive notes: 1. The speech data for A-Bee-C is corrupt. It is included for completeness only. 2. The errata sheet for the Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module is actually *incorrect* for the 364. You may (and should) use the reserved BASIC variable RDY to detect whether speech is available, as the manual instructs. In other words, ignore the errata sheet. 3. The RATE command seems to be non-functional on the Commodore V364. 4. Speech data loads to $6000 (24576) on the V364. The Magic Voice manual expects it at $8000 (32768). 5. The included .d64 is intended for emulators that are compatible with the Commodore V364. It was compiled and tested under YAPE 1.0.10 under Commodore V364 emulation mode, with the Speech ROM in C3 Low and the Toshiba Speech LSI active. THIS .D64 WILL NOT WORK ON A C16, C116, 232, 264, OR PLUS/4.
. Go to the "Commodore V364 Technical Datasheet" publication.
The Commodore V364 Project
From the year 2021, Steve Gray started a project attempting to re-create the Commodore V364, based on a classic Plus/4 board. Watch his page for more infos.
This photo has been taken by Marty Katz at the CES held in january 1984, and published on The New York Times. The public announcement about Jack Tramiel leaving Commodore will come few days later, in January 15th.
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