Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: I've seen this on digicams with CF cards. 2GB is the "official" limit to FAT16 filesystems. However, XP and later can format 4GB cards to FAT16 as well--and it seems to work very well with my older cameras, which do not understand FAT32. While, at the

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: If that 128GB SD card is such a bother, I'll trade a 2MB CF card for it--it shouldn't take very long for a directory listing... :) I'll raise that 2MB offer to a 2GB card! (is Micro-SD + adapter OK?) When it seemed likely that 2G would be going away, I

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 12:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: While, at the time, 2G seemed "infinite", even then, I was amused at the 2G limitation being due to the use of a SIGNED 32 bit number. The size can be anywhere from -2147483648 to 2147483647. By switching to an UNSIGNED 32, NT and the like made the

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 01:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Another way, starting with PC/MS-DOS 3.10 was using MSCDEX, or equivalent. I think that there used to be some very strange patches around to let a hard drive impersonate a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM (2/3 G) was not a local drive to the OS! It was presented as

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On 01/01/2016 12:25 PM, Jim Brain wrote: I understand that, but the OP was talking about a SD card add-on (I assume for the 64) that only accepts 2GB cards. AFAIK, all of them accept FAT32 now. Since I sell one of the variants, and I have snarky people ask me how big a SD card mine will

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On 1/1/2016 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/01/2016 11:03 AM, Jim Brain wrote: On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 11:03 AM, Jim Brain wrote: On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them is that right? Can you clarify? I'm not

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 1/1/2016 2:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: I've seen this on digicams with CF cards. 2GB is the "official" limit to FAT16 filesystems. However, XP and later can format 4GB cards to FAT16 as well--and it seems to work very well with my older cameras, which

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: What's funny is that in the old pre MS-DOS 3.3 days, one of the ways to trick DOS into supporting larger volumes was to increase the (apparent) sector size with code to block up 512 byte sectors into larger (1024, 2048, etc.) apparent ones--and a few DOS

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 01/01/2016 01:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Another way, starting with PC/MS-DOS 3.10 was using MSCDEX, or equivalent. I think that there used to be some very strange patches around to let a hard drive impersonate a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM (2/3 G) was not a local drive to the OS! It was presented as

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 12/28/2015 03:25 PM, geneb wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Paul Berger wrote: > >> On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: >>> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >>> No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving >>> force

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

On 1/1/2016 12:50 AM, Mike wrote: Thank you G for the info that guy was quite young. . . So now I guess Ill buy the SD card addon but the only problem is that I have seen you can only use a 2 gig SD card in them is that right? Can you clarify? I'm not aware of a SD card add-on for the C64 that

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

They sold some units of the c64x. I think there are still some on our local austin craigslist but like most folks said hardware isn't really interesting enough to me to justify the cost.   I cant remember where or who also produced a small (eepc? Or mini asus laptop running linux but badges

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On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force behind the whole mess, died. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll

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On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force behind the whole mess, died. g. The man who founded Commodore, Jack Tramiel resigned from the company in

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On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Paul Berger wrote: On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force behind the whole mess, died. g. The man who founded Commodore,

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On 12/28/2015 12:56 PM, Paul Berger wrote: On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote: Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force behind the whole mess, died. g. The man who founded Commodore,

New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >From PC-World " The new Commodore 64 is, like the old 64, an entire system inside a (rather thick) keyboard. The old Commodore 64

RE: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Who doesn't? Beyond being so clever, shhe is just beautiful! <3 <3 <3 Enviado do meu Tele-Movel Em 27/12/2015 15:41, "Fred Cisin" escreveu: > Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >> > No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). > > "new" Commodore

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> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? > The new system, which also starts at $595, is a little more modern: > it's got a Dual Core 525 Atom processor, an Nvidia Ion2 graphics > chipset, 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), a 160GB hard drive, and > built-in Wi-Fi. [...] No, I would not buy

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> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). To me a computer is not defined by what it looks like. It is defined by the electronics, the firmware, etc. This is not even close to a C64, or in fact to any classic computer. It has no

RE: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). "new" Commodore 64??!? although, I do have to admit that Jeri Ellsowrth's new Commodore 64 (built into joystick) was tempting. I like her cup-holder, and her flip-card mechanical digital

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The manufacturer links are all 404 and the video was from 2011. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X http://www.nf6x.net/

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Yeah, Commodore USA folded years ago, far as I can tell. On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > The manufacturer links are all 404 and the video was from 2011. > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X > http://www.nf6x.net/ > >