[ale] OT: Commodore 64c

[Hogg, Russell E]

As long as we're talking about commodores, I'll show my age (or lack of depending) and admit that the first "program" I ever wrote was a simple game created with Coco2 and my Commodore Vic-20.  I wish I still had that thing.  Nothing like loading software from a cassette deck with a counter.  

My dad chucked it when we got serious and bought a 3Mhz XT with a massive 32 meg hard disk.


Russ
 


 
 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin J. Schmidt [mailto:kschmidt at mindspring.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:09 AM
To: Christopher R. Curzio
Cc: Ron Nottingham; Ale List
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Commodore 64c


Anyone remember Quantumlink? :-) AOL ended up buying their facilities,
etc.


On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 08:31, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> My Commodore 128 (used almost exclusively in 64 mode) never had any
> problems running my endless stacks of C64 software. The only time I used
> 128 mode was when I came across rare software that needed it. Any other
> time, the machine immediately booted into 64 mode thanks to the Epyx
> FastLoad.
> 
> Plus, this was via a true 1571, a 1571 clone, and occasionally (albeit
> rarely) a 1581. My brother and I had several 1541s, and used them to run
> our BBS. 
> 
> Never saw a problem running anything, really. 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
> http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
> :wq!
> 
> 
> Thus Spake "Ron Nottingham" <nottingham at alltel.net>:
> Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:45:27 -0500
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
> > 
> > 
> > > Anyone know if the C64c is compatible with the old regular C64 (i.e.,
> > > games for C64 will run on the C64c)?
> > 
> > For the most part, yes, but a few things won't run.  It's really wierd,
> > if you have a C64c and the new version of the floppy drive (1571), it
> > will run about 90% of the software, if you have a C64c and the old style
> > of the floppy drive (1541), it will run about 95% of the software.  Now,
> > the C128, in C64 mode, with the 1571 floppy drive will run about 99.9%
> > of all C64 software.
> > 
> > Ron N. - Dalton, GA
> > (former Commodore ubergeek)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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