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THE STATE OF COMMODORE
by Dave Moorman
The LUCKI Spring EXPO for 2004 was
a time of good feelings and great
advancements for Commodore computing.
From the perspective of this office
(on the 231st Floor of the Mighty
LOADSTAR Tower), we can share these
insights into the wide world of C=!
GEOS/WHEELS
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The great GUI just gets better.
Todd Elliot has improved GEOPublish.
Roger Longhorn has built what we are
calling the "LUCKI Box" -- a Linux-
driven interface that connects the C=
to 21st Century devices such as color
inkjet printers, scanners, and digital
cameras. Maurice Randall's HDDOS+ is
about ready to ship -- increasing the
capabilities and size of the CMD Hard
Drive.
WINGS
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Moving in another direction, WINGS
offers Unix-esque operation of a Super
CPUed C-64, with major multi-tasking,
improved email access, movies, and
much more.
IDE64
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This card connects the C= machine
to IDE drives (from the PC world),
including ATAPI CD-ROMs. It now comes
with a slot for a Compact Flash card
-- 8 Meg to 512 Meg of RAMdrive
memory!
COMMODORE ONE
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Jeri Ellsworth's project keeps
getting closer to fulfillment.
PLAIN OLD BROWN BETTY
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While the C= keeps pushing forward
with improved hardware and
peripherals, some are still doing
exciting things with "what God gave
us!" The underlying fascination of the
C-64 is the maleability available to
software, as well as hardware,
innovations. DOTBASIC may not be the
"be-all and end-all" of operating
environments, but it stands on an
ordinary 1 Mhz C-64, with nothing more
exciting than a 1541 connected.
All this points to why, in our
humble opinion, the C= computer users
refuse to give up. Some are satified
with what this machine can do, and no
amount of hype will change that
notion. Others see what's going on in
the rest of the world -- and DO IT
themselves (an affront to consumerism
if there ever was one)!
And both of these approaches are
possible because the C-64 was built
with expansion and extension in mind.
Jim Butterfield commented that the
C-64 has so many entry points into the
ROM operating system because software
developers from the PET on demanded
more direct control. The connect-
ability of external memory and devices
through the expansion port is
remarkable in its straight-forward
design.
We are, for the most part,
Computer HOBBYISTS. And the C-64/128
is a great little Hobby Computer!
DMM