Lester, Bob wrote: > Commodore 64 anyone? :-) I owned one then - with speed of 1.0?? MHz. Played games, learned myself Assembler, prolog, basic (slow and yucky!), logo (?spelling? that turtle thing language - actually a vector based drawing program).
There were a lots of new things+terms like sprites, garbage collection, game cartridges, etc. And I remember the weird data handling by magnetic tapes - you could overcome that weirdo design and more than double up your tape reading/writing times by using a much published + free TURBO software. For more info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 > Do you know what OS it ran? Own kernel owned by Commodore and Commodore BASIC. You need to use Poke/Peek to disable Basic and then go have fun with Assembler. I am still sorry that when I sold my C64, I also sold that 300+ pages book which gives a detailed line by line overview of that kernel and basic interpreter. > Was the HW an x86? Motorola? Apple? 8 bit MOS Technology 6510 with 64KB memory - Loosely based on Motorola AFAIK. I'm not sure what the motherboard was and what chips were on that beside a VIC graphics and SID soundchip. Sound chip was a SID chip invented by an engineer who is also a musician. It was a sound synthesizer with 4 'waves' enveloped in Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release. It was then at that time the only home computer capable playing organ music with all its vibrato + drum effects. ;-) Game, Sinbad the Sailor, was one of the first games which has a speech synthetics used for in-game dialogs by those characters. You can download a C64 emulator to use on your windoze PC. That worked like a charm which I used to replay Manic Miner! (a version of JetSet Willy type game) > I had a buddy (years ago, of course), that did strange and wonderful (at > the time) things with several of them connected together. No cases, wires > everywhere, but pretty cool anyhow for the time. Connected? How? I only know analog modems and bbs you used for that. > TGIF, else I'd be in trouble. :-) You will never get in trouble and not get any flames! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
