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 I'm look around for MIDI compatible software for the Commodore 128
 and also any MIDI interfaces...

 Let me know if you have any available for sale or if you know a
 source where I can buy this equipement.

thanks


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From: Alan Jones <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: SuperCPU-64 status?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:56:00 GMT
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Maurice said:

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Date : 07-21-96      Time : 09:51
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SuperCPU-64 status?

<snip>
If you have ordered one, start watching for it. I can say that you will
be pleasantly happy with it, especially if you use graphics intensive
programs like GEOS or other programs that must do a lot of calculations
or heavy duty processing. Those programs will be greatly enhanced. GEOs
is unbelievably fast with this unit. It has really spoiled me.

-Maurice
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Great!  I presume that this will enable you to develop the WAVE sooner
and make it available at a lower price.  I hope all C64/128 software
developers get a SuperCPU.  I'd really like to see Craig Bruce's
productivity accellerated, but I also fear he may be seduced into
writing 65C816 specific code.

You recomended it for programs that do a lot of calculations.  Have the
floating point arithmetic routines been rewritten to take advantage of
the 16 bit architecture, or does it just do the old 8 bit stuff, but at
a faster clock rate?  Is it easy for users to patch the RAM shadowed
ROM code?  What type of ROM does it use?  How fast will it run my COMAL
2.0 cartridge?  Or more to the point, how can I run COMAL 2.0 at full
SuperCPU speed?

Thanks,  Alan Jones, [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Stephenson)
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Subject: Re: The Big Red Q...
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 03:39:32 GMT
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On 23 Jul 1996 02:18:38 GMT, [e-mail] (Michael Miller) wrot=
e:

>One last thing: On what date did Q-Link open?

November 1, 1985, if I'm not mistaken ... they shut the doors October 31,
1984.

Ma=F1ana,

Jim
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From: [e-mail] (Zach Douglas)
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Just wanted to let everyone know I have some good TI titles and some
pretty ok vic-20 titles in my latest auction.  I won't list them here to
save bandwidth, but send email and you'll get a list!

I may have an MBX console, but haven't been able to test it yet.

Thanks,
Zach D.

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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Jim Butterfield wrote:

> Seems to me that there used to be two programs on the late lamented QLi=
nk:
>   --an "evictor" that reset LCP to its initial state, so that you could=

> start from the beginning;
>   --an "editor" (yes, it changed just one byte) that gave you a new
> personality in your LCP program.
>
>    Somebody must have copies of these around somewhere.
>
They're up on my Web Page under freq.html.

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From: [e-mail] (Zsolt Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Joysticks for C-64 and Amiga 500.
Date: 23 Jul 1996 06:00:51 GMT
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In article <4scc7k$[e-mail]>,
Adam Vardy <[e-mail]> wrote:

>The Sega controller is a sturdy contraption, and you get better diagonal=

>response.  Name me, anyone, a joystick or controller that has as good
>control in all 8 directions, and I'll go out an buy it.
>


A good, heavy duty arcade joystick will always be far better than any
joypad. Of course they also tend to cost 10x as much...


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I would like to buy a C64 + 1541. However, I need to know how I can
cost-effectively transfer files from my Amiga to the C64. I'm looking in
the $30-40 range for the combo. Also I don't want to pay shipping charges
if possible, so anyone in Maryland (in the vicinity of Baltimore) who's
selling their C64--I will come and pick it up in person.

Another pre-requisite: it has to connect to an RGB monitor (that is, it
has to come with an RGB connector similar to the one that Amigas use).


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From: [e-mail] (Adrian Bartel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zip Drive
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 06:09:21 GMT
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[e-mail] (Mike Neus) wrote:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...

>>making the ZIP drive because the media is thin (like a floppy disk).
>>Contrast the SyQuest, these cartridges are more like hard drive platter=
s
The SyQuest drives and Iomega's JAZ drive are similar, in that both
are removeable-platter hard disk systems, while the ZIP is a
floppy-type system.  It doesn't operate on quite the same principle as
the Bernoulli drives.

Check out www.iomega.com if youre curious.

>>is how fragle the mechanism is... Also, Zip drives and loud and get
>>quite hot (cause of the power required to spin the huge platter...)
>>all this is contrast the ZIP drive, anyway...

> Who said the Zip drive was noisier/hotter?
I suspect a bit got left out of the sentence above, between 'Zip
drives' and "and get quite hot'  ;-)


Cheers
Adrian



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Jens Ellerbrock ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Sounds like either the processor (6502) or one of the bus-drivers (74ls=
14
> 74ls06) might be one of the via's too but that's not that likely.

Argh, forget about the processor, if the light's flashing it is most
probably working. Like someone else suggested, if the via's (6522) are
both socketed try to exchange them.

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From: [e-mail] (Cris Berneburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: MULE: All time best scores?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:22:34 GMT
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[e-mail] (Paul Allen Panks) wrote:

>I've noticed that in the Tournament game with 1 player and 3 computer
>players:

>The computer players (mechtrons) always get first shot at plots, even if=

>you press the button immediately. There's nothing to override their
>dominance in this department (I've only played with Flapper and Human, s=
o
>I am not sure if the E.T. guy with the long neck or the fat, round
>friend-of-sienfeld-on-that-show farmer-dude looking guy gets first shot.

The computer mechtrons are faster than human players, but plot
selection priority is *always* in reverse score order. I find I have
to hold the button down before the "cursor" gets to the land plot to
beat out the mechs, ALA I'm not in first place.

>The Pirate ship will come if Crystite production is high in most or all
>plots (if its late in the game). This could,of course, be random, but it=

>seems to have some sort of pattern to it.

>Plots with "No crystite found in plot" will nevertheless still produce
>crystite if your energy is high enough (I had a No Crystite plot produce=

>7 units once).

If you are into big Crystite production elsewhere, a lone plot with
expected zero yield can produce big! Also, production efficiency
increases with adjacent same-product plots.

>An easy way to push your money past 20,000 or more is have a game where
>there's repeated Fire's in the Store and food and energy prices skyrocke=
t
>past 200 a unit. If you stockpile food and energy during these lean
>months, you could be sitting pretty by the 10th or 11th months. And, of

Trouble is, *you* might do well individually, but the colony *as a
whole* might do poorly if those dumb mechs are deprived food or energy
or the price is too high.

>course, always _ALWAYS_ stockpile Crystite plots. IMHO, Smithore is crap=

>and therefore should never, ever be mined. (There was one game,however,

Well, *somebody's* gotta produce it or there will be no MULE's! Each
MULE takes two bars of Smithore.

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From: [e-mail] (George Noel)
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In article <4stumv$[e-mail]>,
Jason Compton <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Ross Deeley ([e-mail]) wrote:
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>: BTW speaking of emulators, who has the rights to the c64 ROM these day=
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>: VISCorp only bought the amiga stuff didnt they, and Escoms down the
>: gurgler...
>
>VIScorp is buying everything Escom bought from Commodore except the
>Commodore trademark, so the 64 ROM rights are included.

So what are they going to do (if anything) about these ROM images being
downloaded via the net or in some cases being included in the
distribution package of the emulator?  I think this could be a big market=

if they themselves put out or licensed a C64 and Amiga emulator with ROM
image included.

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Hi, I recently bought a Plus 4 computer. It came with no cables / manuals
etc. whatsoever. So I first had to desolder the power socket to replace i=
t
with a C64 one. It seems to work for the most part. The 3 + 1 stuff does =
NOT
seem to work, after the intro message, the screen just blackens. Graphics
seem to be OK, but some demos cause strange effects: diagonal lines, same
1/16th part of the screen repeated in mono etc.
Are there any obvious things to look for?

Any help (e-mail preferably) is apreciated.

Toine.
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Vander White)
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I have uploaded patches for The Write Stuff in both 128 and 64 mode
to use Canon Bubble Jet Printers or Epson 24 pin printers. These
are print drivers and mods written by Ron Hackley of Fun Graphics Machine.

They are on ccnga.uwaterloo.ca in the INCOMING/128 utility directory at
present. I will also upload them to ftp.funet.fi but it may take a few
days on thatsite before they are active for FTP.

Please get them and spread them around. The names ofthe files are
TWSCANBJ.SFX and TWSCANBJ.TXT.

Jack VW
Commodore CEE