WELCOME TO 1997
Three legendary machines, one browser tab. Pick a computer from the golden age of home computing and boot it up.
Choose your machine
Each system is a self contained simulation. You can switch any time.
- Welcome!CyberVision
CyberOS 97
1995 - 1999IBM PC compatible, 1997
- 🖥 PC 486
- ⚙ Pentium 166
- 🧮 32 MB RAM
A Windows style desktop with dial up, Netscape, Winamp, ICQ, classic games and a deskful of period software.
- Workbench 357270 graphics memWorkbench1.3Commodore
Workbench 1.3
1987 - 1992Commodore Amiga 500, 1987
- 🖥 Amiga 500
- ⚙ 68000 7 MHz
- 🧮 512 KB RAM
The blue Workbench desktop with draggable windows, an AmigaShell, a text editor and the legendary Boing Ball.
**** COMMODORE 64 **** READY. █
CommodoreBASIC V2
1982 - 1994Commodore 64, 1982
- 🖥 C64
- ⚙ 6510 1 MHz
- 🧮 64 KB RAM
The blue BASIC V2 screen with a real, typeable interpreter. PRINT, FOR, GOTO, LIST, RUN and the one line maze.
Then versus now
Four decades of home computing side by side, all the way to a 2026 machine.
| C64 | Amiga 500 | PC '97 | Modern PC 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | 1 MHz | 7 MHz | 233 MHz | ~5 GHz x16 |
| Memory (RAM) | 64 KB | 512 KB | 32 MB | 32 GB |
| Storage | 170 KB | 880 KB | 4 GB | 2 TB SSD |
| Colors | 16 | 4096 | 16.7M | 1.07B |
| Sound | SID 3ch | Paula 4ch | SB16 | Spatial |
| Released | 1982 | 1987 | 1997 | 2026 |
| Launch price | $595 | $699 | $2000 | $1500 |
How far we have come
Bars use a logarithmic scale, otherwise the older machines would be invisible.
Memory
- C6464 KB
- Amiga 500512 KB
- PC '9732 MB
- Modern PC 202632 GB
Clock speed
- C641 MHz
- Amiga 5007 MHz
- PC '97233 MHz
- Modern PC 2026~5 GHz
A 2026 PC holds about 500,000 times the memory of a Commodore 64.
Its clock runs thousands of times faster, and it does so across 16 cores instead of one.
The curve of progress
System memory by year on a logarithmic scale. Each gridline is a leap of orders of magnitude.