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| 25 JAN 2003 at 9:10pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | What, no one is willing to admit that they used an 8-bit micro? Or did y'all have those crappy Apples, Amstrads and Ataris, trembling in the shadow of the mighty C= ?
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 9:45pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | i admit i used an 8-bit comp... but it was a speccy!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 10:29pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Aya_Brea (25 JAN 2003 9:45pm)
i admit i used an 8-bit comp... but it was a speccy!
The crappiest of them all You still might know some of the answers...
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 10:37pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (25 JAN 2003 10:29pm)
The crappiest of them all You still might know some of the answers...
NO WAY... speccy was THE best! well ok C64 was better but the CPCs? major crap
perhaps i know an answer or two... i'll check them out again
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 26 JAN 2003 at 8:50am |
resonateIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 51
Joined: 18 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Here's the best I can do without cheating in any way. Forgive any errors or mistakes:
1. The second issue of the disk drive, the one most often used with the C128.
2. Backwards compatibility with the Vic20, perhaps? Maybe a bug in the drive controller? I know there are disk turbo utilities around, so I doubt it's anything purely mechanical.
3. 8 is the device number assigned to the first disk drive. Not entirely sure about the ,1 added afterwards, I think it has something to do with loading machine code as well as BASIC in, but I'm not clear on the details.
4. Z80, for use in CP/M mode.
5. The Apple II and.. erm.. some other one that I have no idea what it is.
6. Microsoft, I believe. If it is, (and I suspect), was there anyone aside from Sinclair that didn't use Microsoft's BASIC? I can't think of any.
7. Different formatting, presumably. The C64 drives are single-sided, and the PC drives double-sided, but I don't know if that would make a difference.
8. 320x200 resolution, 2 colours per 8x8 attribute square. I don't know the second part. Programming gives me migraines.
9. SID. Sound Interface Device, or something along those lines.
10. SYS 64738. I'll never forget that one, as typing it in causes your fingers to sort of ripple out across the top of the keyboard. Go on, give it a try. It's as much fun as you'll have typing in a five-digit number. Which, admittedly, isn't actually all that much fun at all.
This week, I have been mostly playing
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| 26 JAN 2003 at 7:27pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Cool, resonate! Your memory serves you pretty well. So here are the correct answers (you got most of them right).
1. 1581 was a 3.5" floppy drive, 800KB capacity.
2. Poor design. The data was transferred serially, bit by bit, with "software" timing signals. C128 had "burst mode" which used HW timing and was considerably faster.
3. 8 was typically the first disk device. The 1 meant the program would be loaded at an address specified at the start of the file.
4. Z80 for CP/M use.
5. Apple II, Atari 800/130, probably others.
6. Microsoft. They pretty much had a monopoly on BASIC.
7. The 5.25" drives use GCR encoding (versus MFM in PCs). The PC floppy controller is physically unable to read those disks. The 3.5" drives used MFM, just like PCs.
8. 320x200. In memory the image was split into two parts: one bit map determined foreground/background color. Another array held the actual FG/BG colors, one byte per 8x8 block. There were 16 colors (4 bits/color).
9. SID, or Sound Interface Device.
10. SYS64738. I don't remember the number, but I know how to type it It is unforgettable.
I forgot my sig.
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