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We often hear Commodore fans saying that the company had the worst management in the history of the industry… and it did make its fair share of bad decisions. Even so, there are plenty of rivals for that dubious honor. Before we recount some other catastrophically bad moves, we thought we'd recap a few of Commodore's awful decisions, for the benefit of non-Commodore types. . It sold millions of the. Although the Speccy had 256×192 graphics, in a clever hack to save expensive RAM, the resolution for colors was limited to the text resolution of 32×24 – so when graphics moved across the screen, colors flashed and changed and didn't line up.
But much more relevant to the Spectrum's budget-gamer market, Sinclair – and its Spanish partner Investronica – failed to add the US model's better graphics. This vulture still owns his original 1987 128K Spectrum and, 38 years later, is still somewhat bitter about being deprived of 64-volume mode.. But with just 32kB of RAM, it was chronically short of memory. Mode 2 graphics used 20kB, meaning that the entry-level 16kB BBC Model A couldn't use that mode at all.