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

> Of course, you could use a 1351 mouse in joystick mode. As soon as mouse support
> is here you can use it in proportional mode as it should.

Yup.

> Dunno, i thought it showed great promise. It came with a demo that did a complex
> calculation in dual CPU mode as well as in single CPU mode. Dual CPU mode was a
> lot faster, needless to say.

Yeah, but with the Super CPU around, it just blows away any of those
co-processor ideas :)

> >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, but the old drives like 1541 only had a couple of K of RAM
anyway.  However those parallel loaders could, I suppose, also be used in
this capacity.

> that had a flatcable with a socket for one of the chips (can't remember which
> one, i thionk it was one of the CIA chips) and on the other end it had a

One of the 6522 VIA's.

> userport connector. I think the exact layout must me on the web somewhere.
> Anyway, with that kit you could have a standard 1541 in parallel mode.

Things like Dolphin-DOS spring to mind.

> 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.

> >Music: High Voltage SID Collection
> >http://home.freeuk.net/wazzaw/HVSC/
> 
> I haven't looked, do you need a SIDSymphony for these tunes?

Nope, but it's nice to have one.  It's easy to build, too (CMD no longers
sells them, due to lack of good source for SID chips).

> Jos looks appealing and so does Clips. I liked GEOS so i'm sure i'd
> like Wheels, i already knew GeoFax but this is the first time i have
> heared of the Wave. Pity they don't show any screenshots...

There are some screenshots of The Wave on Colin Thompson's site I
think.  Don't have the URL handy, though.

> 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.

> >Documentation:  Project 64
> >http://project64.c64.org
> 
> Ermm... 404....

Strange, I just checked this one before writing the URL.

> >Need I say more? :)
> 
> Oh, but there is a lot more to be said.

> As i wrote before, the C64/128 could have come further than it already
> went. My biggest disappointment was that many of these sites haven't
> been updated in ages.

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.

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.

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