Creative Micro Designs
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Founder | Mark Fellows |
| Defunct | 2009 |
| Fate | Dissolution |
| Successor | Retro Innovations |
Creative Micro Designs, Inc. (CMD) was founded in 1987 by Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows. It is a computer technology company which originally developed and sold products for the Commodore 64 and C128 8-bit personal computers. After 2001 it sold PCs and related equipment.
History
[edit]CMD's first product, JiffyDOS, was developed from 1985 onwards by Mark Fellows. An updated disk operating system, it maintained broad compatibility with Commodore floppy drives' DOS while offering much increased read-write access.
CMD stopped selling Commodore products in 2001. In July of that year, programmer Maurice Randal was sold an exclusive license to produce and sell the Commodore-related products. His company Click Here Software Co supplied the products until around 2009.[1]
In 2010, Jim Brain acquired the license to supply JiffyDOS. Since January of that year, he has sold the product via his webshop Retro Innovations.
Products
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- SuperCPU - A 65816 CPU 8/16-bit upgrade for the C64 and C128 released on May 4, 1997, with version 2, the C128-compatible version, being launched in 1998.[2]
- RAMLink - A 'fast' solid-state RAM-Disk that would plug into the cartridge port of the C64 or C128 which added between 1 MB and 16 MB. The C64 version typically required a 'timer jump clip'. The RAMPort allowed it to work with the Commodore 17xx RAM Expansion Units
- FD series - The FD2000 used 'High Density' Disks of up to 1.6 MB of storage, with the FD4000 using 'Enhanced Density' Disks of up to 3.2 MB of storage
- HD series - SCSI Hard drives of between 20 MB and 4.4 GB using CMD's native partitioning system of 16 MB per partition
- JiffyDOS - Adds DOS Wedge commands for easier functionality via BASIC command prompt
- SwiftLink/Turbo232 - Adds dial-up modems to your Commodore 64 or 128 of up to 38.4 kbit/s (SwiftLink) or 56.6 kbit/s (Turbo232)
- 1750 XL - a Commodore 17xx REU clone in two flavours adding either 512 KB or 2 MB
- SuperRAMCard - Works in conjunction with the SuperCPU to add between 1 MB and 16 MB of directly accessible memory using the 65816 processor
- SmartTRACK/SmartMOUSE - An 'intelligent' Commodore 1351 3-buttoned mouse or trackball which had 2K of RAM and a battery-backed Y2K compliant real time clock which was GEOS-compatible
References
[edit]- ^ "Old Computers Museum". Archived from the original on 2016-07-03. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ C64 CPU Speed up Cartridges - The History
External links
[edit]- The unofficial CMD—Creative Micro Designs homepage
- JiffyDOS at Brain Innovations — officially licensed JiffyDOS products.
- http://www.go4retro.com/products/jiffydos/ - An updated side where you can buy your legal version of JiffyDOS
- American companies established in 1987
- American companies disestablished in 2009
- Commodore 64
- Commodore 64 peripheral manufacturers
- Computer companies established in 1987
- Computer companies disestablished in 2009
- Defunct computer companies of the United States
- Defunct computer hardware companies
- Home computer hardware companies