I remember when I upgraded to the C128. It was quite the machine then. hehe. And I dreamed of one day saving enough $ to buy that 1 Megabyte hard drive! haha! Was it 1MB or 10MB? I think it was one. I forgot.
C128 was a business mistake by commodore, because they came out with amiga right after that. soon afterwards the company went down unfortunately.
the commodore scene is still alive, there are still software companies making games for it, still commodore magazines coming out and there is a large (well, relatively large) community of users.
Recently the commodore brand has been re-licensed by some whatever company and they are now in charge of all things commodore. Read it here: