Running Apple

[ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently]

</p> <p>The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take …. Running Apple ][ Software on a Commodore 64 — Silently. Plenty of money followed, which led to strange products and even stranger ads.

[Such Bad Tech Ads] reveals a very bad ad from that time for a product we have barely heard of: the Spartan. The Spartan’s job was to convert your Commodore 64 so it could run Apple ][ software. On the face of it, the Spartan might not be a bad idea.</p> <p>Other conversion kits like the Intel Inboard/386 managed to find some success in the market later. The problem, outside of strange ads, was one of timing. If the product was available in 1984, it might have worked out better for the Canadian company, Mimic, behind it.</p></div></body></html>” />