Commodore International (or most simply Commodore) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), participated in the development of the home–personal computer industry in the 1970s and 1980s. The company developed and marketed the world’s best-selling desktop computer, the Commodore 64 (1982), and released its Amiga computer line in July 1985. With quarterly sales ending 1983 of $49 million, Commodore was one of the world’s largest personal computer manufacturers. Post-Commodore 64, they faced the problem of marketing their next-gen system, the Amiga, of still being seen as the company that made cheap computers like the 64 and VIC. By the late 1980s, the personal computer market had become dominated by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms and Commodore’s marketing efforts for the Amiga were far less successful in breaking the new computer into this now-established market than its promotions for the 8-bit line had been in making Commodore the home computer leader. On April 29, 1994, Commodore declared bankruptcy and faded into tech history, though not obscurity as the company’s computer systems, especially the C64 and Amiga series, has retained a massive cult following that remains strong even decades after its demise.