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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!taco!news
- From: Nance@NIEHS.bitnet (Bob Nance)
- Subject: Re: 6526A CIA chip and Paperback Writer
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.155304.6974@ncsu.edu>
- Summary: 6526A causes problems in Paperback Writer on 64/128
- Keywords: Paperback Writer, 6526A
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: nance@niehs.bitnet
- Organization: CSC/NIEHS
- References: <1992Sep9.022426.15731@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:53:04 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Frank -
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- I had not considered this as the cause of the problem, myself. I have a 64
- that has been re-built several times and now has 2 (two, count 'em) 6526A's for
- CIAs. I thought that the problem was that my PW disk had been trashed. I'll
- have to try it again on one of my other mothballed 64's.
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- Thanks for the idea!
- -Bob
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- In article <1992Sep9.022426.15731@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Frank.Prindle@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Frank Prindle) writes:
- >In repairing my C64 recently, I replaced CIA 1 (originally a 6526) with
- >a 6526A (because that was what was available). In all respects, the
- >replacement chip worked just fine; that is until I tried to load the old
- >faithful word processor "Paperback Writer (Version 1.20)", at which point
- >the disk drive just sort of acts dumb and doesn't load anything. I tried
- >swapping in another C64 which did not have the replacement chip and it worked
- >fine, as did the original C64 before the 6526 died. Any clues what makes a
- >6526A sufficiently different from a 6526 that this program won't load?
- >More to the point, does anyone have an unprotected "Paperback Writer" that
- >he/she would be willing to copy for a registered owner of the program (me)?
- >I plan to contact Digital Solutions, but suspect that they will not be able
- >to duplicate the problem because they are several revisions removed from the
- >version I have, and may not even know what a 6526A is.
- >Thanks,
- >Frank Prindle
- >Frank.Prindle@lambada.oit.unc.edu
- >--
- > The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- > internet: bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
- >
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