subject: Rise and Fall of the Commodore 64 [print this page] The later Amiga series saw a history almost as stellar, though by this time corporate intrigues back at headquarters doomed whatever innovation engineers at Commodore Business Machines, its research and development arm, could cook up. This is why the C-64 and the Amiga 500 continue to inspire to this day, with emulators and software available on platforms as varied as Nintendo's Virtual Console and Apple's App Store.