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[ 03/01/2003 01:00z #:8000 @:G4YUU QRA:IO92CN ] .
" Welcome to the HTML Revolution "
GM7HUD wrote with great skill:- about the Amiga and C64 Commodore as
per..
> The only redeeming feature was the lack of a hardware floppy disk
> controller. The functions normally performed by the FDC where
> shared between some of the custom chips. Commodore insisted on
> their strange GCR encoding scheme. But as the format was soft, it
> meant you could use the FDC as a high performance disk copier.
> Just about any copy protected 3.5in double density format could be
> copied trivially using the Amiga.
Hi Andy
Although I was never an owner of an Amiga two friends had them and I
can remember in the late 1980's of one chap ( not my friends )
boasting that he would give six (6) games/programs for any Amiga
Game/Program etc that he did not possess.
I do remember that the Graphics were superb and somewhere I have a
number of Amiga floppies although I was never able to see them. I do
remember the "Workbench" floppy which I have.
The one friend I can remember had a A1200 which the HDD was split for
PC and Amiga..correct me if I am wrong. The other friend had a 14"
Monitor which cost him 750gbp and the CRT was at least 16/18" long at
the back..Again the graphics were superb..A very popular make which
are still made today although much cheaper but the name escapes me.
I still have my Commodore C64 and AEA RTTY Unit together with a
Plotter and several matching Cassette players which are stored in the
loft..I bought it due to the Qwerty keyboard and learn to type with
Mavis Beacon software which used to take at least 7/8 minutes to
load..
The Commodore magazine once printed an extremely large program to be
able to condense any C64 programs on to one Audio cassette in machine
code format. The programs would then load in seconds instead of
minutes..Many suggestions were printed but not one worked..There was
page after page of Machine code with Totals at the end of each line I
remember and if did not total the input was incorrect..
Due to copywrite they made an error and never ( could not) published
the full program and there were also some printing errors and a
crease in the one page of the magazine which did not help. I spent an
awful lot of time on this program and to cut a long story short I
eventually got it to work. I submitted the finished cassette to the
magazine who eventually came back to me and asked me to write out in
"Idiots Language" as it was called then, for them to publish.
As per...Type in so and so then press Enter etc etc etc.
Publish they did not but mentioned in their magazine that Photocopies
of the instructions were available by post. The magazine then asked
me for further information which took me some time to repeat as I had
forgotten how and took me a few weeks of hard work.
I eventually sent this off and was rewarded with a selection of
Commodore Games (which I still have) for my efforts.
My only claim to fame, other than my picture with my late friend
G4BCN on the front cover of the magazine HRT Today in 1995 at the
Draytom Manor RA Rally..
I am sometimes when reminded by such a SB as yours if anybody on
Packet actually remembers this episode which at the time was
supposedly outstanding inasmuch up to 6 or 7 C64 programs could be
saved to a C90 Audio cassette and cut the loading time down to
seconds. It did work very well..
I have a Chess C64 program which used to take 11 minutes to load and
then sometimes failed due to head alignment. I then puchased a head
alignment cassette tape for the C64 and was in great demand.
Some months ago I was given by a daughter of my late friend G4BCN a
pile of games and accessories for the Spectrum 48K together with
quite a number of new and used Microdrives that I used with my
Spectrum and also Sinclair QL.
Amongst all this pile is an Atari 2600 console together with plugin
games etc together with the PSU and leads for the TV. I have it in
front of me as I type this SB.. Also an Atari cassette player and
many cassette games..Does anybody remember this games computer...
Talk about memory lane..
BFN
73, John, G4YUU @ GB7MAX
00:41 on 03 Jan 2003
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Makes a change to HTML dunnit!!!
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