X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-17 21:19:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!feeder.qis.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!24.30.200.2.MISMATCH!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.kc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Nate / DAC X-Sender: natedac@flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org Reply-To: nospam@nospam.com Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857) In-Reply-To: <2g3u8tgim9e14esk4a7nh9mesg9o6d3oas@4ax.com> Message-ID: References: <8okg8tc8cv5b5r720ciljg9fp3fjb1akjs@4ax.com> <16gr8tgalfh8057ciisd8uakbji47jar43@4ax.com> <2g3u8tgim9e14esk4a7nh9mesg9o6d3oas@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 117 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 05:19:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.166.131.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.kc.rr.com 982473546 24.166.131.83 (Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:19:06 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:19:06 CST Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4463 > 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. > >> >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. :) > >> 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 :) > >> 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? Well it received a few upgrades, but I don't know the status of it today. I *think* it can use an X1541 cable now (before, it used a parallel/User-Port cable I believe). Last I knew Paul Garners-Stephen was the one in charge, but that was years ago (been a good couple of years since I heard from him last). > 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 :) > >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? :) Actually my site's not too far out of date, only a few months at worst. However, it probably could use a facelift. > >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? > 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). 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). > For example, the Fairlight site (which C= user never heard of Fairlight?) hasn't > been updated since 1997... Fairlight, as a group, hasn't been active at all lately, at least not that I have seen. Crest and Oxyron seem to be the most active right now. 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