Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857)

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 05:19:06 GMT, Nate / DAC <nos...@nospam.com> provoked the
following text:

>> You know, i only went as far as the Flash8, contrary to the SCPU it had very
>> little compatibilty. I couldn't get GEOS to run stable, a lot of screens would
>> be f*cked up, both in demos as well as in games. The only programs that really
>> befitted from the Flash8 were Basic programs and a few other programs that just
>> ran faster like a flightsim (don't remember the name) in which you could take
>> off, climb to 40,000 feet and crash in 2 seconds flat :-))
>
>Flight Simulator II has been patched for Super CPU, as has GEOS.  However,
>most games and demos still screw up, either because they use illegal
>opcodes that only 6502 variants can execute (65816 doesn't have any
>illegal ops), or they use 1 MHz-specific timing.
>
>Sometimes it's a memory mapping problem, but this, I would think, is
>extremely rare since the Super CPU only adds a handful of registers to I/O
>space.

I think you misread my text, i wasn't talking about the SCPU but about the
Flash8 accellerator cartridge.

>> >> >Now if you have a CMD Hard Drive, which offers Parallel,
>> >> You don't need a CMD drive to have a parallel drive. There were/are kits around
>> >Certainly not, 
>> Certainly it could! I bought a kit and ran the 1541 in parallel mode
>> for about a year before i retired the good old C64.
>Sorry, my statement came out wrong - the "certainly not" was supposed to
>enforce your "your dont need..." comment, not reject it. :)

Ah, sorry 'bout that...

>> >> I had that one! It came with a number of song, "99 Luftbalons" amongst
>> >> others.
>> >The one I'm thinking of only had one tune, something about "eliza" or so.
>> In that case i think that we are thinking of two different programs.
>> Mine was a program to make these tunes with.
>Ahh, the one I tried didn't have a composer in it, it was just the one
>tune.  "Flowers for Eliza" or something like that?  Still, a neat thing to
>mess with, if you already had a nearly dead 1541 to play around with (I
>wouldn't want to use that program on a known good drive :)

A good drive would certainly survive it, it just vibrates the head in a similar
way it does when reading a floppy, nothing more. 

>> >> Does it run standalone or does it need GEOS/Wheels?
>> >It needs Wheels, a Super CPU with at least 1 MB of RAM, and a high speed
>> >modem with Swiftlink-compatible RS232 card.
>> What ever hapened to Net64? I'm on cable now and if i ever want to internet with
>> the C64 i'll need that one.
>64-Net?  

No, Net64 (i so sure that was the name), it enabled you to connect a C64 to a
LAN.

>> And when i checked again it was back up. If i ever need docs to the commie i
>> know where to go :-)
>Definitely.  Be sure to obtain a copy of the C64 Programmer's Reference
>Guide sometime, if you ever decide to mess with the C64 again (or with an
>emulator, such as Vice)..  It's an invaluable reference, tells you
>everything you need to know short of describing the way the signals move
>about through the machine  :)

Twalking about emulators: Years ago, the best C64 emu one could get was C64S, is
that still the case or are there better emu's now?

>> >True, a lot of the Commodore people get lazy when it comes to thier
>> >websites (myself included).  Some just don't take the time, though.
>> I think it's time you go and do you part then!
>Me?  :)

Yep! :-)

>Actually my site's not too far out of date, only a few months at
>worst.  However, it probably could use a facelift.

And where can i find your site?

>> >Either way, there's a lot more to be done before these old machine can
>> >rightfully be called 'dead'.  So far, the end isn't in sight yet.
>> I love it to see a true believer like i once was.
>Curious...why did you give up using it anyways?

Well, i bought a 286 for my wife and before long i had taken over the machine,
trying stuff out (like "is it really impossible for a PC to read a C64 floppy?"
'n stuff). Then i discovered Windows 3.1 and i was impressed by the speed, the
resolution and the high availability of software.
Eventually i noticed that i didn't use my C64 anymore so after a few months
collecting dust i decided to put it in my computer storage roon (yes, i have
one) where it noe rests.
Mind you, i didn't scrap it, nor did i retire it. It simply rests there.

>> But i have never declared the commie dead, what i do say is that the
>> scene isn't as vibrant as it once was.
>
>Agreed...  Seems the most activty now is centered in Germany and
>Poland.  If you look at the US Scene just on the serface, it looks flat
>out dead.  But if you dig a little deeper, you'll turn up all kinds of
>little goodies that we're doing now.  One user, Jeri Ellsworth, is working
>on a VGA card for C64 (I've seen the working prototype).

Cool! In one of the CW's CMD had a suvey, asking if we would be interested in
buying a C64 compatible computer if it required a VGA monitor. This reminds me a
bit of that.

>I'm working on an MP3 decoder board wrapped around the MAS3507-D chip
>(www.micronas.com).
>
>Others are pursuing things like better CD-ROM support, multitasking OS's
>like JOS, Ethernet support, etc.
>
>One friend of mine is working on a whole new C64 board - he wants to try
>to pack the entire board, plus a few enhancements, into a single chip (in
>VHDL I think).

Very High Density Layers?
Anyway, it sounds promising...
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