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- From: marcus durham <marcus@zenn.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Vic-20/C-64 serial ports
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 96 14:44:41 GMT
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- In article <4cn3ba$ifj@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
- simon.brady@stonebow.otago.ac.nz "The Arch-Deviant" writes:
-
- > Isn't it scary what you remember? I was staring at the "please wait..." message
- > on a swipe-card reader this morning, and started thinking about how much of my
- > youth was spent reading those same words while waiting for Vic-20 programs to
- > load off tape. This got me thinking about how, by the time we had a C-128 (but
- > still no disk drive), things had advanced to "Invader Load", a hectic version
- > of space invaders you could play while the tape rolled.
-
- Im sorry I had to delurk at the mention of that game.
- Goodness. Invaderload, I remember that ( still have it somewhere ). That
- music and the brillientness of it all. And half the time Invaderload
- was better than the game you where loading. I remember stopping
- the tape after Invaderload had loaded on more than one occasion just
- to play Invaiderload.
-
- > The reason they could do this was that tape I/O was interrupt-driven, and to
- > finally get to the point of this post I'm struck by the irony of a system that
- > has interrupt-driven code for tape but software polling for disk I/O.
- >
- > My question is, why did Commodore implement the serial protocol in software?
- > Both the 6522 and 6526 had hardware shift registers and associated interrupt
- > capability, but until the 128's fast serial mode these were never used. Does
- > anyone know why not?
- >
- > TIA...
- >
- > Simon Brady "I've been an awful woman all my life
- > University of Otago A dreadful daughter and a hopeless wife
- > Dunedin, New Zealand Well I've had my eyes on that carving knife
- > simon.brady@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Oh you've been lucky, so far..."
- > - Kirsty MacColl, 'Bad'
- >
-
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- -=- Marcus Durham -=-
- Circular logic will only make you dizzy
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