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« on: July 31, 2012, 01:48 PM »
I've not been on here for aaagggeeessss .. so thought I'd see what is new in the world of C= lately :-)
Anything good ?
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« on: May 09, 2011, 07:14 AM »
Still all busted icons for me :-( Not had a chance to find the missing pictures ?
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« on: May 02, 2011, 06:53 PM »
Hi there,
Which country are you located in ?
Mark
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« on: April 29, 2011, 07:58 PM »
Hi there,
Welcome :-)
You'll probably find people here in 8bit land far more friendly that some of those social leper Amiga fanatics ;-) hehehehe
Have fun!
Mark
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« on: April 20, 2011, 05:59 AM »
Hiya,
The icons for the various boards are corrupt for me, my work laptop and my home Mac can't seem to display them, I just get what you see in the attached picture.
Is it me ? Or is a link to some pictures missing ?
Mark
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« on: April 19, 2011, 08:56 PM »
Hi there, Please excuse the forum archaeology, but I thought this might be interesting to some :-) I just tried the "benchmark" out on a Chameleon64. With Turbo off = 141 With Turbo at 2Mhz = 87 With Turbo at 3Mhz = 71 With Turbo at 4Mhz = 24 With Turbo at 5Mhz = 19 With Turbo at 6Mhz = 16 With Turbo at no throttle = 9! :-) And one other thing ... Driller becomes playable!!!! :-) Regards Mark Recently there has been a thread on comp.sys.cbm (COMMODORE BASIC rules). There have been comments that the C64 is faster to execute BASIC code than the C128 is.
This got me thinking, years ago BYTE Magazine published a short BASIC program that allowed you to test various machines.
The code is here :
10 PRINT TIME$
20 A=2.71826
30 B=3.14159
40 C=1
50 FOR I=1 TO 5000
60 C=C*A
70 C=C*B
80 C=C/A
90 C=C/B
100 NEXT I
110 PRINT TIME$
120 ENDSo, how do the various Commodore machines compare ? I used the five machines I have readily at hand & got these execution results (slowest to fastest) :
C128 (in 1MHz mode) - 206
Plus4 - 183
PET 4032 - 178
C64 - 141
VIC20 - 123
C128 (in 2MHz mode) - 101
Amiga 1000 (AmigaBasic) - 23
Clearly the C64 can execute generic code faster than a 1MHz C128, however when you take into account BASIC 7.0's better graphics & sound commands I don't think you can compare.
Some interesting points ;
1) A VIC20 blitzes a C64
2) A C128 in FAST mode executes the code more than twice as fast as a C128 in SLOW mode
Notes: The Amiga, 128, 64, VIC & Plus4 are all PAL machines, results will differ for NTSC. There was no difference in speed in either 40 or 80 column mode on the 128.
cheers,
Lance
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« on: March 26, 2011, 03:37 PM »
TMK, there was never a 128 version. Ah, the mind is playing tricks on me. After digging into a box, I found Megapatch 3 for the C128 on a 1581 disk, sent to me by Robert Woolf of Florida.
Is it any good ? I've still to "find" a working copy to try out.
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« on: January 13, 2011, 06:42 AM »
Just think how much fun you could have if you got one of those Chameleon carts (when they come out), more CPU power and more colours to play with :-)
I think having a CPU speed agnostic fast loader would be a good thing as well.
Nice work, thanks for sharing!
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« on: January 13, 2011, 06:36 AM »
If you have a copy of the REU tester outside of the ROM I can test it (don't have a Megabit)
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« on: June 18, 2010, 08:15 PM »
My hack involved pushing the switch in so the monitor was on, then jamming a paper clip in around the edge of the switch so it wouldn;t pop out again.
Probably not the safest thing in the world :-) but it worked ... till the monitors LOPT when sqweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pop!! :-(
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« on: May 25, 2010, 10:19 AM »
Of course if you let slip you have nifty toys then we'll all want to play!
Like the kid down the street with the new ball :-)
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« on: May 21, 2010, 02:17 PM »
You can plug the MP3@64 into the IDE64 as well .. works a treat :-)
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« on: May 21, 2010, 01:34 PM »
Ahhh .. so it's just a standard RS232 -> X10 interface box with just a cable to the C64 userport for the TTL RS232 interface :-)
Hmmm .. so chances are fairly good that the C64 software for your box would also work for the more modern RS232 -> X10 adapters out there!
Could you .D64 (Or .G64) any of the X10 software disks you might have and post them ?
Be interesting to play with.
Thanks for the pictures!
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« on: May 11, 2010, 05:37 PM »
Then I remembered a gadget I had for my old Commodore computer called an "X10 Home Control Interface". So I went through some boxes and found my old X10 stuff. I found a computer interface with 8 on/off switches... I have that!
Any chance of some photos, schematics etc ? :-)
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« on: April 09, 2010, 05:02 AM »
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« on: February 02, 2010, 08:59 AM »
No experience hacking the menuing system, just the turbo-loader / saver and copy protection.
What I would like to know is if anyone can provide the files / disks (or a link to such) that CMD Hard Drives provide for GEOS.
As I understand, the CMD Hard Drives came with special "patch files" that allowed them to work with GEOS. By analyzing them, and building from my JiffySoft 128, I am confident I could produce a patch (disk drivers) that would allow GEOS to operate with modern mass storage devices, like the uIEC / MMC / 1541u... anything that supports JiffyDOS protocol.
Since I would REALLY like GEOS to have proper support for all those good things like 1541U, IDE64, MMCReplay I went and found the drivers for you ;-) Also you might want to visit : http://members.elysium.pl/ytm/html/ciaide.html On there is a design for an IDE interface and GEOS driver source for the interface. I attached the source here as well : So you'll have it done by friday then ? ;-) Mark
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« on: January 29, 2010, 03:15 PM »
X-10 Home Automation Version 1.0
Now that would be interesting ... do you have any more info on that ? What the hardware and software combo is ? Mark
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« on: January 27, 2010, 07:23 PM »
Cause mine arrived ;-)
Just wondering if I can make it play nice with the 1541U, they almost work properly in a Fotios 3XP expander, but the filemanager in the IDE64 dies horribly when the 1541U is in :-( Bit of a bummer as it makes filling the IDE64 a bit harder or I have to resort to connecting the laptop up via USB (havn't woked out the ethernet side yet either)
Also can anyone explain how the plugin system works ... I'm sure there is logic to how it is implemented but I havn't grasped it yet, and certainly can;t get it to work!
Ta!
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« on: January 27, 2010, 07:17 PM »
I posted a reply over at retrohackers ... but let me post here as well ....
Cool!
I'd say move the jumpers and DIP switches off to one side, most people are lazy (ok well maybe just me ..) and would not remove the carts from the board while trying to fiddle with the jumpers and DIP switches this runs the risk of over stressing a cart in it's slot.
Also put in the BIGGEST switches you can, nothing worse than fiddling with DIP switches with the end of a pen (ala back of 1541-II drives) .. plus all us "enthusiasts" are getting older
Being able to swap the IO1/2 lines is a good feature of the Fotios board.
The ability to easily (and completely) disconnect a board from the bus without removing it would be handy so that if you have 2 board that don't play nice together you can turn off one slot ... one big button per slot ?
And how about an option ROM socket ? Maybe taking up a pseudo "slot 4" with a bank select for the larger EPROMS ?
One other thing ... I've read that the C128 has a "noisy" bus ... is this noise something that could be cleaned up or filtered by some cleverness on the expansion port ?
Anyway .. whatever you make will be nice
Regards
Mark
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« on: January 26, 2010, 07:03 AM »
If you happen to find the C64 version of Half Life 2 I wouldn't mind a look ;-)
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« on: January 24, 2010, 05:13 PM »
Attached is a grab from Safari 4.0.4 on my Apple Mac Mini (OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard)
See where it's put your attachment ?
I shall try out the mobile version of the site ... any chance you could put it at an easier URL ? (mobile.commodore128.org for example ?) It's fiddly tapping the screen to enter long URLs :-)
Regards
Mark
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« on: January 24, 2010, 10:21 AM »
Hi there,
The new forum software has a few issues for non-IE and non-Firefox platforms
1) Safari - Attachments (like pictures) are displayed shunted way over to the right edge of the screen.
2) iPhone / IPod Touch Safari - the new "hover over a subject to see the text inside feature" (you know where you have the list of posts in a forum, you hover the mouse over it and it opens a window that follows the mouse as you move it along the post subject) .. that really doesn't work on my iPod, it opens the bubble window fine, but then you have to click a few times to get rid of it and into the posting proper.
Regards
Mark
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