Creative Micro Designs
Creative Micro Designs (CMD ), since 2001 CMD Technology Group, is one in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts -based American computer company that was founded in 1987 by Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows and self-developed hardware and software for the Commodore home computer C 64 and C 128 offered.
History
The first product was the disk operating system developed in 1985 by Mark Fellows and later repeatedly updated JiffyDOS, which offered a huge speed advantage in read-write compared to the original DOS Commodore floppy drives while maintaining a very broad compatibility. In the following years the company made in a market environment, from the other hardware manufacturers slowly retreated for the C64/128, talk with then felt for these computers as innovative Hardwarepheriegeräten of itself. Among them were, inter alia, name: 1990 HD -Series, which allowed access to standard SCSI hard drives, 1992 FD -Series, 3 ½ " floppy disk drives, in contrast to the previously offered by Commodore VC1581 also the expanded capacity of HD and ED floppy available could make 1993 the RAM drive RAMLink, which offered up to 16 MB of memory, and, from 1996, the 20 - MHz accelerator card SuperCPU. the end of the American edition of the journal RUN and the COMPUTE! ' s Gazette led the company from 1994 to 1999 with the Commodore World surrendered own computer magazine, this was the last in North America in printed form published with the Commodore 8 -bit computers seised periodical.
CMD heard in 2001 so on, Commodore products to sell and has since then under the name of CMD Technology Group general IT services. The original developer Mark Fellows and Doug Cotton retired in the aftermath of the company, owner of all the Commodore products were Fellows. The production and marketing of this product line have been licensed on July 21, 2001 to the programmer Maurice Randall exclusively, whose company Click Here Software Co. ( Charlotte, Michigan) this applied until November 2009 on its website, however, was the C64 scene belonging Discussion Forums shows that apparently no distribution of the products was more, at least since the year 2006. In November 2009, Randall explained the distribution and support now officially set. This was followed by a licensing JiffyDOS series to Jim Brain to offer this now since January 2010 on his webshop Retro Innovations.
Important products of CMD
- JiffyDOS
- FD Series
- HD Series
- RAMLink
- Swiftlink/Turbo232
- 1750 XL
- SuperCPU
- SuperRAMCard