#! rnews 2648 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newspump.sol.net!spool. mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.n et!gti.gti.net!apollo.gti.net!c128user From: "Glenn P.," Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: SuperCPU Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:25:38 -0400 Organization: GlobalNet Telecom Inc. Info: 1-(201)-285-9099 or Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <96081120062552920@qcs.org> Reply-To: "Glenn P.," NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo.gti.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: Return-Path: "Glenn P.," X-Receipt-To: "Glenn P.," Receipt-To: "Glenn P.," X-Gibberish: The Elephant says "Tusk, tusk!". Contents: Reply to Usenet Post. Expiration: 31-Aug-1996 Precedence: Normal Priority: Normal On Tue., 13-Aug-1996, Doug Cotton wrote: > In article <96081120062552920@qcs.org>, Alan Jones wrote: >> What would really sell the SuperCPU? A killer application that >> requires the SuperCPU. I doubt that this will happen. However, it may >> happen that the WAVE (a C128 graphical web browser in development) may >> work well but very slow on a stock 128 but be quite fast on a SuperCPU >> 128. > Guess we'll see. There are at least a few software authors interested in > doing things that weren't possible before. But a lot of the older apps are > suddenly much more usable, too. One "Killer Application" that *I'm* hoping and praying for is PGP for the C-128!!! Now *that* would make a SuperCPU well worthwhile!!! Any programmers Out There willing to undertake a PGP.C128??? ;) --_____ {~._.~} "There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure -- if not _( Y )_ not indeed kill -- himself. The more advennturous he is and the (:_~*~_:) greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect (_)-(_) him from each of the hundred, he is sure to find the hundred-and- ========= first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble ========= at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact W.T.P. survive, more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting ========= father." ===================================== :: --= Glenn P. =-- :: --"The Enchanted Places", Chapter 21, :: c128user@GTI.Net :: By: Christopher Robin Milne. #! rnews 1711 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintl ink.net!eskimo!fungus From: Scott Brockway Subject: Re: VIC-20 In-Reply-To: X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eskimo.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: To: Gary Tait Originator: fungus@eskimo.com Sender: news@eskimo.com (News User Id) Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever References: <4ts63e$pj8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4u90tm$7o3@news.indy.net> <4u9ec1$e5f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <320bb08e.8573779@news.dknet.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:42:56 GMT Lines: 25 On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Gary Tait wrote: > Is Vic Revealed,by Nick Hampshire, erroneus(sp) as well ? > > Gary Tait > > On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Scott Brockway wrote: > > Keep in mind alot of the VIC-20 PRG is untrue, mostly to do with the > > capabilties of the VIC chip. > > Yes and No, what is erronius is stuff like maximum number of columns/rows and don't try that little hardware project in the back with the 6522 unless you want to kill your vic. It's says stuff like anymore than 25 colums will produce only grabdge on the screen... not true. if you have 8k ram or more you can make the screen upto 31*31 . Almost all of the otherinfo is correct and I haven't found any more anomaly's. Like I said , don't tkae the VIC chip limitations it provides seriously. #! rnews 1214 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!01-newsfeed.univie.ac. at!news.iif.hu!isyshu!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank. news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net! hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed. inter etmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!news.deltanet.com!anderson From: anderson@delta1.deltanet.com (Mark Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Cardinal 14.4 external w/ Swiftlink? Date: 13 Aug 1996 09:10:18 GMT Organization: Delta Internet Services, Anaheim, CA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4upgpq$q61@news04.deltanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: delta1.deltanet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello! The local computer mega-warehouse is selling Cardinal 14.4 external modems for under $40, so maybe it's time to get a Swiftlink from CMD and upgrade from my trusty C= 1670 modem. But my question is this: Is the Cardinal 14.4 / Swiftlink setup possible without too much hassle? I know CMD sells a Boca/Swiftlink package, but it's a bit pricey for me. And is the 14.4 Cardinal external any good in the first place? Thanks in advance for your comments! Mark anderson @ deltanet.com -- #! rnews 1145 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.sprintlink.net! news-fw-6.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Radioactive Warrior Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: How to made null cable PC - C=64 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:47:11 +0000 Organization: What? me! worry?! Lines: 11 Message-ID: <320FD08F.7CBE@orl.mindspring.com> References: <4uo3fb$nr1@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Reply-To: radwar@orl.mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-176-117.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Also- add to the last question: When you DO find the schematics out there that refer to a MAX-232 IC (presumably the chip used in the APROTEK RS232 interface) well, I don't have an APROTEK interface so where do I find the MAX-232 chip? I would like to have a crack at the 9600bps interface that is currently under development/improvment but the plans only show how to mod that chip and I haven't gotten any further with it... Any help is helpful :) moist- Radioactive Warrior #! rnews 1943 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch! surfnet.nl!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu. net! EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp! psinntp!psinntp!usenet From: wanderer_rtc@usa.pipeline.com(R. T. Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Cardinal 14.4 external w/ Swiftlink? Date: 13 Aug 1996 11:07:49 GMT Organization: BBS SysOp Extraordinaire Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4upnm5$keb@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com> References: <4upgpq$q61@news04.deltanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.8.231.5 X-PipeUser: wanderer_rtc X-PipeHub: usa.pipeline.com X-PipeGCOS: (R. T. Cunningham) X-Newsreader: Pipeline v3.5.0 On Aug 13, 1996 09:10:18 in article , 'anderson@delta1.deltanet.com (Mark Anderson)' wrote: >Hello! > >The local computer mega-warehouse is selling Cardinal 14.4 external >modems for under $40, so maybe it's time to get a Swiftlink from CMD >and upgrade from my trusty C= 1670 modem. But my question is this: >Is the Cardinal 14.4 / Swiftlink setup possible without too much hassle? >I know CMD sells a Boca/Swiftlink package, but it's a bit pricey for me. >And is the 14.4 Cardinal external any good in the first place? Thanks >in advance for your comments! I have had success with the PPI and Zoom. I see no reason that the Cardinal modems would cause any problems, unless you're trying to get it to work with a BBS program. Those are tricky. But all external 14.4K modems should work with the SwiftLink, and 28.8K modems as well though there isn't any speed increase for those over the 14.4K's. Now when you get a SuperCPU to go with that, you should be able to go the max speed of the modem since the CPU is the only thing slowing anything down. Richard T. Cunningham (a.k.a. Wanderer) SysOp of the Desert Oasis BBS in Phoenix, AZ A Commodore 128 BBS, 602-849-2892 #! rnews 2285 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!newspump.sol.net!news. mindspring.c om!usenet From: Radioactive Warrior Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: terminal program to send a whole disk Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:12:42 +0000 Organization: What? me! worry?! Lines: 28 Message-ID: <320FD68A.3572@orl.mindspring.com> References: <4ul5pl$aqh@crl5.crl.com> Reply-To: radwar@orl.mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-176-117.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; U; PPC) T. Koyn wrote: > > I would like to send the entire contents of a 1541 disk (raw sector dump) > as a single file to be received on another computer for use with an > emulator. I have a working commodre system, but am wondering what > terminal program would allow me to do this. Wow! I first read this yesterday at which time I was reminded of a previous project that I had, untill now, abandond. I spent a few hours today gathering soold tools and found a program called MODEM NIBBLER that I've had for years but never bothered to fiddle with it enough to get any results. Firstly the program will not work for the requested job cause it needs a c64 at both ends- secondly the program was written in basic and max. baud is 1200 (yuck...) and lastly I found out why I could never get it to work- a bug exists in the compiled copy I have... After de-blitzing and examining and crushing the bug it worked first time- if incredably slowwwww. Well, if I get the time (and ambition) I may improve the program (a good ML modem send/receive routine is needed) and include the RLE depack code to "unZIP-CODE" the received files as they are sent from a remote computer- a project I have been wanting to start for many moons.... Also the next logical enhancement is to have it unD64 the file as it is received- likewise, D64 a disk as it is sent... Well, all in good time... Till then, 64COPY works very well on the PC/DOS side to go from D64 to ZIP-CODE and back- this is what I uze... Anyhoo, thought I would let you all know what was up my sleeve. hot&bothered- Radioactive Warrior #! rnews 7230 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:04:43 -0500 From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: SuperCPU Message-ID: References: <96081120062552920@qcs.org> Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc. X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.6b4 NNTP-Posting-Host: s148.the-spa.com Lines: 109 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-out.microserve.net!news-in. microserve.net! news.paonline.com!news3.paonline.com!s148.the-spa.com!user In article <96081120062552920@qcs.org>, Alan Jones wrote: > I have read only discouraging things about user hacking on the > SuperCPU. I asked if it was easy to patch the RAM shadow of the ROM > image and what type of ROM the SuperCPU used. I was told that this was > not possible and that I should keep a hands off policy toward hacking > the SuperCPU. The SuperCPU C64 Kernals (yes, plural) are located in RAM bank $01, where they can be readily changed by anyone with enough programming expertise. We don't necessarily recommend this for commercial applications, though, as I can pretty much guarantee that there will be OS changes and upgrades coming that may present compatibility problems. You also need to be careful about patching routines that need to activate the other Kernals at given points, or figure out how to align those patches with the underlying layers. These subjects will get coverage in the programming guide. > This same person told me that the ROM used is "virgin > jdos". I've checked all my reference manuals and catalogs and I can't > find an IC chip manufacturer or trade name of Virgin, nor jdos. He was referring to it being a relatively standard JiffyDOS implementation. > I certainly hope that the SuperCPU ROM(s) > is(are) socketed DIP packages and of a type that is commercialy > available and programmable by the Promenade C1. I don't know what capacity ROMs can be handled by the Promenade, so I can't really answer that directly. The SuperCPU does use standard ROM chips, though. Currently, I believe the unit is shipping with a 128 KB (that's KiloBytes, not bits) ROM. The 128 verison may end up being a 256 KB ROM, that's as yet unknown. The system is designed to take up to 512 KB, though, with the remainder to be used for Native OS upgrades and other bundled 'features'. > An unresolved question is how fast the SuperCPU will run cartridge > based software All cartridges operate at 1 MHz while access to cartridge is going on. > such as the COMAL 2.0 programming language. This > cartridge is 64-128K of EPROM bank switched in 16K banks. This cartridge switches out the Kernal, so it isn't going to be at all compatible. > I may well > be the only person to whom this question is important. However, there > are many more C64/128 software cartridges out there. CMD should have > provided some means of running these at full 20 Mhz speed. This could > be instructions for building a new cartidge with faster EPROMS and > circuitry, or RAM shadowing the cartridge EPROM images in the SuperCPU. So far as I know, ROMs that could keep up with 20 MHz don't exist. We initially had hoped to use a fast ROM ourselves, but couldn't find a source. Your only hope for this specific cartridge would be to dump all the ROM segments, then patch the disk routines and any other timing dependant routines for 20 MHz. Adjust the bank-switching mechanism to get other code segments from far RAM, then use the final result with a SuperCPU containing extended RAM. > It is also apearant that the CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) > is the magic "black box" that makes the SuperCPU work. I have not seen > any info on this published yet. Understanding the CPLD is certainly of > interest to user/programmers. This is a traffic cop and is also where the special registers of the SuperCPU exist. The User's Guide already contains info on most of the registers employed. The programmer's guide will go into more detail on these, and will get into some of the system timing variances generated by this chip. We won't document this chip 100%, though, as some signal controls will change, and much of the info on this chip would only be useful for someone trying to duplicate what we've done. There's a pretty clear line between that info and what info on this chip is useful to programmers, and the latter will be covered. > I have two great hopes for the SuperCPU. First is the Rocket Socket. > If CMD produces a series of powerful expansions for this port and > software to use them, it could become much more usefull. For example a > good FPU (floating point unit) and an enhanced graphics card. The > graphics card could be a stunning SVGA unit or a unit based on the old > Amiga chip set (which would also work with many 128 monitors with > analog RGB inputs). Our only planned option for this expansion connector is the extended RAM/C128 daughterboard. Doing more than that was considered, but enclosure considerations won out in the end. It may be feasible (physically) to have two cards inside the unit, but I doubt you'd be able to put any SIMMs on either of them. > The second hope would be that the SuperCPU becomes so popular that many > 65C816 program development tools are released (as well as software) and > a user DIY hardware hack is developed for the C64/128. This might be a > 65C816 running at just 8 Mhz with just a few K bytes of fast RAM (or > even just zero page) patched into the C64/128. This would cost only a > fraction of buying a new SuperCPU, but more importantly it would be a > fun hardware hacking project. Doing such a hack would pretty much require adding most of the circuitry of a SuperCPU into the 128. I have serious reservations about calling that kind of a hack 'fun'. Probably the easiest hack would be to try to overclock the 128's own processor, update the RAM, then modify the ROM. But I'm betting you'd still need to break all traces to the I/O circuitry and put some custom logic in-between. > What would really sell the SuperCPU? A killer application that > requires the SuperCPU. I doubt that this will happen. However, it may > happen that the WAVE (a C128 graphical web browser in development) may > work well but very slow on a stock 128 but be quite fast on a SuperCPU > 128. Guess we'll see. There are at least a few software authors interested in doing things that weren't possible before. But a lot of the older apps are suddenly much more usable, too. > Will I buy one? Probaly not, but I am interested and I'm waiting to > see how the SuperCPU 128 pans out. Doug Cotton E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com ===================================================================== | Creative Micro Designs, Inc. | Orders: (800) 6383-CMD | | P.O. Box 646 | Support: (413) 525-0023 | | East Longmeadow, MA 01028 | Fax: (413) 525-0147 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Visit our WWW Site at: http://www.the-spa.com/cmd/ | ===================================================================== #! rnews 3608 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:26:39 -0500 From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: SuperCPU Message-ID: References: <96081120062552920@qcs.org> Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc. X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0.6b4 NNTP-Posting-Host: s148.the-spa.com Lines: 53 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-out.microserve.net!news-in. microserve.net! news.paonline.com!news3.paonline.com!s148.the-spa.com!user In article , e92_aan@elixir.e.kth.se (Andreas Andersson) wrote: > I'm sure the person in question was talking about some sort of regular > version of JiffyDOS, CMD's OS patch... I concur. > As for the actual chip used, well, from a picture of the SuperCPU on > CMD's website it looks just like a normal 28-pin EPROM in a 32-pin socket. > (Which is making at least me a bit suspicious about the information below > the picture saying that this is 128K ROM. I may me wrong of course, but it > looks more as if there's an _option_ for 128K ROM. I think the largest > 28-pin EPROM's are 64K.) The picture and text didn't agree, yes. But the text was really meant to indicate what the production unit would include, and that is the case. The initial boards we used in-house and for beta testers were modified to take the smaller ROM, but eventually all had to be switched back to production standards to take the production ROM. > If CMD publishes the specs on the rocket socket, there's no reason why > you shouldn't be able to build yourself an improved cartridge :) > Unless, of course, they've done something really brain-damaged like not > having the whole bus available on it. They seem to be pretty smart people > though, so this shouldn't be the case. The main problem with this is that there's only room internally for basically one board, and there's no external access to this port. Someone could make their own custom internal card for the 64 version provided they don't want the CMD extended RAM board for the SuperCPU, but on the 128 version, the connector will be used for the 128/RAM combo card. > > It is also apearant that the CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device) > > is the magic "black box" that makes the SuperCPU work. > I have a hard time seeing them letting out this kind of info. It would just > be way too easy to copy their design... To that degree, you're correct. Though info on the registers contained in this chip have already been documented in the User's Guide, and some more info on those and some system timing differences created by this chip will be included in the programmer's guide. > Why stop at that? I could sure use an Ethernet card, couldn't you? > And the Swiftlink really isn't that great at 1 MHz, is it? > An IDE interface is simply a must, I would say. :) These are issues that I believe will be addressed in the next CMD project following the SuperCPU. Doug Cotton E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com ===================================================================== | Creative Micro Designs, Inc. | Orders: (800) 6383-CMD | | P.O. Box 646 | Support: (413) 525-0023 | | East Longmeadow, MA 01028 | Fax: (413) 525-0147 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Visit our WWW Site at: http://www.the-spa.com/cmd/ | ===================================================================== #! rnews 737 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news. mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news6.agis.net!agis!oxy.rust. net! usenet From: bryan white Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: CMD ??? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:19:55 -0400 Organization: better now that I'm married Lines: 8 Message-ID: <320E78AB.10BB@rust.net> Reply-To: bwhite3@rust.net NNTP-Posting-Host: aa-6.rust.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) After posting my first message I looked at CMD's Web page, Are they doing ok, the stuff was fairly old and it made me wonder, if they were still a going concern? thanks bryan #! rnews 1197 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news.sesqui.net!uhura.phoenix.net!usenet From: pancake@mail.utexas.edu (C Daniello) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Who owns Epyx games? Date: 13 Aug 1996 06:01:34 GMT Organization: Phoenix Data Net (713) 486-8337 http://www.phoenix.net Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4up5nu$2ds@uhura.phoenix.net> References: <1996Aug2.020849@clstac> <4tt43p$s9b@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial94.phoenix.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 >In <1996Aug2.020849@clstac> jmaniquis@csupomona.edu writes: >>Howdy, >>I just wanted to find out if anyone here knows who owns the rights to the >>made by Epyx. This year's olympic games have brought out some memories of From what I gather following the events leading up to the Supercharger CD project, Epyx bought the Supercharger titles when Starpath folded and then a company called Bridgestone bought the Epyx stuff. Bridgestone makes Christian software of some sort, and they were nice enough to let Glenn Saunders put the Atari 2600 Supercharger titles on a CD for distribution. #! rnews 1253 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!suncom.rz.hu-ber lin.de!not-for-mail From: h0142kdd@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de (Paul David Doherty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 29 READ ERROR ? Date: 13 Aug 1996 09:09:16 +0200 Organization: Humboldt Universitaet Berlin Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4up9ms$8lq@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de> References: <4unib5$7v1@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de> <320F4508.4244@orl.mindspring. com> NNTP-Posting-Host: joker.rz.hu-berlin.de In article <320F4508.4244@orl.mindspring.com>, Radioactive Warrior wrote: > >When the disk is formated, the ID that is initally given (ie. >"N0:NAME,ID") is written to each sector as the disk is fomatted. >The ID for each sector is part of the GCR "header" and thus >cannot be altered using a standard track/sector editor... [etc.] Well, thanks, but I knew all that. My original question was: How do I get a 29 Read Error on a particular sector? Or, in other words, if I get a 29 RE on (say) sector 5:0, what is the ID embedded in the header of block 5:0 compared to? Where does the 1541 DOS get the "master" ID for a disk from? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, -- Dave #! rnews 969 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.erols.net!swrinde! gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news6.agis.net! agis !oxy.rust.net!usenet From: bryan white Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: surfing with C-128?? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:02:29 -0400 Organization: better now that I'm married Lines: 13 Message-ID: <320E7495.29C5@rust.net> Reply-To: bwhite3@rust.net NNTP-Posting-Host: aa-6.rust.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) Since I just found this group and my Dad sill uses his 128D and I saw that CMD super CPU thing, and Dad does love making "old" things work better, I plan on getting him the super CPU and a hard drive and a fast modem. The question is what's the fastest modem people are using, and is there a graphical browser (Geos-type maybe) that can be used? thanks for any pointers bryan #! rnews 787 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp. primenet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.berk.net!news.axxis.com!news.bestweb.net!al pha.comsource.net!news.cioe.com!dial1-16.tctc.com!user From: herb3@tctc.com (Herb House 3) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Lookin for Last Ninja 3 Date: 6 Aug 1996 20:50:29 GMT Organization: Herb House 3 Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial1-16.tctc.com I am looking for the game Last Ninja 3. Copies are okay if I can also buy copies of the instructions. Thanks Justin Wilson -- Herb House 3 Independent Distributors of Nature's Sunshine Products Complete line of all natural Herbs and Vitamin Supplements (317)762-6772 Voice Or Fax #! rnews 1719 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net! surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!mud.stack.urc.tue.nl!martijnb From: martijnb@mud.stack.urc.tue.nl (Martijn van Buul) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: CBM 80xx Date: 13 Aug 1996 08:45:43 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4upfbn$4l9@tuegate.tue.nl> References: <4u6pkl$edo@tuegate.tue.nl> <4udp05$r04@d1o2.telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mud.stack.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter Karlsson (m9944@abc.se) wrote: : In article <4u6pkl$edo@tuegate.tue.nl>, martijnb@mud.stack.urc.tue.nl : (Martijn van Buul) wrote: : > The only problem is to get those (basic) files into a PET. : PC -> 1541 via StarCommander, and then via a 4040 drive to the PET, : perhaps? Sure. The only problem is : I don't have an 4040, nor a 4031. (But hopefully a IEEE compatible 1541 soon..) : Does anyone know if it possible to adapt StarCommander for use with a : parallel IEEE interface (like a 4040 or 8050)? Guess not. The standard IBM PC printer port doesn't have enough IO lines. Martijn -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- Martijn ('PINO') van Buul, martijnb@stack.urc.tue.nl (Pino Is Not Onno!) -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- " And just when you thought you've seen everything about stupidity, people get internet-acces...... " Try visiting OuterSpace, mud.stack.urc.tue.nl 3333 -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- #! rnews 1699 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net! nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!newshub.sdsu. ed u!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed. internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!news.worl online.nl!usenet From: spy@worldonline.nl (Jeroen van Drongelen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Vic-20 software offered part ][ Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:08:34 GMT Organization: Da Vinci College Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4uqgd6$abd@mars.worldonline.nl> References: <4uiiqh$ndd@mars.worldonline.nl> <320e5b14.6237439@news.dknet.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: drdt1-p58.worldonline.nl X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen) wrote: > >Ok, my VIC-20 disks are making their way to ftp.funet.fi, into the > >directory /pub/cbm/incoming/vic20, named VIC_DISK.LZH. I don't know > >how the system administrators there are going to name it, but they're > >about 25 disks in VICDISKx.D64 (x=ascending number/letter) so you know > >how to look for them. The archive is 1,8 MB. > I just had a look in /pub/cbm/incoming/vic20 but found it empty. > Anybody got any ideas where the files are located now? Sorry about that. I should have know an 'incoming' directory has only CREATE and WRITE rights! I guess the disks will be transferred to the proper location (/pub/cmb/vic20 or something like that), so when the sysop's there return from their holiday, they will be reachable. I really hoped that the files could be read from the incoming dir, but I was wrong. However, I can't possibly send all requesters the 1,8MB archive, they're just too many of them. #! rnews 6806 Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news. mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de! rzstud3. rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ubki From: ubki@rzstud3.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Frank Schnuerer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: THE COMMODORE 16/116/PLUS4 GAME LIST - 08/96 Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:52:36 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 342 Message-ID: <4uptqk$iba@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud3.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: ubki X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ************************************************************** ************ THE COMMODORE 16/116/PLUS4 GAME LIST ************ ************************************************************** Here is my updated C-16 game list ! There are 273 cassettes, 27 disks and 5 cartridges on my list ! I would like to thank everybody who helped me to complete it. But I still need your help. Please send me a list of all games you have. '*' means that I'm not sure if the game really exits, because I have only seen the name on different old lists ! If you find a bug or can help me to remove some of the '*'s please send me a mail ! EMail: ubki@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de -------------------------------------------------------------- CASSETTES: -------------------------------------------------------------- 3D Timetrek 3-D Maze 3-D Quasars Aardvark ACE * ACE (64k) * Alien Attack * Alien Invasion Airwolf Apollo Rescue Arena 3000 Atlantis * Auf Wiedersehen Monty * Auriga Autobahn Autozone * Baby Berks Bandits at Zero * Battle Beach Head Berks Berks III Big Mac * Blagger BMX Racers Bomb Jack Bongo (Construction Set) * Booty * Bounder * Bridgehead Bubble Trouble Canoe Slalom Castle Dracula * Catacombs * Cave Fighter * Classic Adventure * Classic Snooker * Circus * Climb It Commando * Cops and Robbers Cruncher Cuthbert in Space Cuthbert in the Cooler Cuthbert in the Tombs Daley Thompson's Star Events * Danger Diamonds Dark Tower * Death Race 16 * Defence 16 * Demolitions Diagon * Diamond Mine * Dork's Dilemma * Droid One * Emerald Mine II * Escape from Pulsar 7 European Games Exorcist * Fighting Warrior Finders Keepers Fingers Malone Fire Ant * Five-Star-Games * Flight 015 Flight Path 737 Football Manager Footballer of the Year Footballer of the Year (64k) Formula 1 Simulator Frank Bruno's Boxing * Frenesis * Fury * Future Knight * Future Shock G-Man * Galaxions Galaxy Ghosts'n Goblins Ghost Town Gnasher * Goldrush * Golf Grandmaster * Green Beret * Gremlins Gullwing Falcon Gun Law Gunslinger * Guzzler Gwnn Harbour Attack * Harvey Headbanger Hektik Hoppit Hustler * Hyperforce * Hyper Sports * Ian Bothan's Test Match Icile Works * Indoor Soccer International Karate * Into the Deep Invaders * Invasion 2000 AD * Jetbrix * Jet Set Willy * Jet Set Willy II Joey Jump Jet (64k) Kane Karate King (64k) Kikstart Knock Out Kung Fu Kid Las Vegas (Video Poker) * Laser Zone * Lawn Tennis League Challenge * Leapin' Louie! * Legende im Eis (64k) Legionnaire * Liberator * Lunar Docking * Mail Trail * Major Blink * Manic Death Chase * Manic Miner Master Chess * Matrix Mayhem * Megabolts * Mega Zap * Mercenary (64k) * Meteorite * Minipedes * Mission Mars Molecule Man Monkey Magic Monty on the Run Moon Buggy Mr. Puniverse * Munch It * Myriad * Netrun 2000 Ninja Master Number Chase Oblido * Olympiad One Man and his Droid Out on a Limb * Panic Penguin Panik ! Paper Boy Petals of Doom Petch * Pfad im Dschungel (64k) Pharao's Tomb Pin Point * Ping Pong * Pogo Pete Powerball * Project Nova Prospector Pete * Psychedelia Punchy * Purple Turtles P.O.D. (Proof of Destruction) Quiwi (64k) Raetsel der 7. Kolonie (64k) Raffles * Raider * Reach for the Sky * Rescue from Zylon Return of Rockman Richochet Rig Attack Robin to the Rescue Robo Knight Rockman Roller Kong Runner * Saboteur * Saboteur (64k) * Scooby Doo Scramble Seastrike * Second City (Mercenary II) (64k) Shark * Shoot-It Skyhawk * Slippery-Sid * Soccer Boss * Solo Sommer Olympiade * Sorcerer of Claym. Castle * Space Escort * Space Fiends * Space Freaks * Space Pilot Space Sweep Spectipede * Speed King * Spiderman * Spiky Harold * Sport Show * Spy vs Spy Squirm * Starburst * Star Commando * Starcross (64k) * Starforce Nova Storm Street Olympics Strip-Poker (64k) * Suicide Run * Sun Street (The Newsboy) * Supergran * Suspended (64k) * Sword of Destiny * Tazz Terra Cognita Terra Nova Terra Nova (64k) * Terrorist Thai Boxing The Berks Trilogy * The Hulk * The Magicians Curse The Way of the Exploding Fist * The Way of the Tiger * The Wizard and the Princess Thrust * Timeslip Tom * Tomb of Tarrabash * Torpedo Alley * Torpedo Run * Tower of Evil Trailblazer Treasure Island * Trizons Tutti Frutti Tycoon Tex * U.S. Drag Racing Ultimate Adventure UXB * Varmit Vegas Jackpot Video Meanies * Video Poker * Voidrunner * Vox * Wacky Painter Water Grand Prix * Waffenslinger * Who Dares Wins II Williamsburg Adventure * Wimbledon * Winnie Witch's Superbroom Winter Olympiade Winter Olympics World Cup * World Cup Carnival * World Series Baseball * Xadium Xargon's Revenge Xargon Wars * Xcellor 8 Yie ar Kung-Fu * Zagan Warrior * Zap'em Zodiac Zolox -------------------------------------------------------------- DISKS: -------------------------------------------------------------- * ACE (64k) * ACE II (64k) Bongo (Construction Set) * Bridgehead Chipy Crillion * CJS Games Demolition * Hollywood Poker (64k) Fortress Underground * Karate King (64k) Legende im Eis (64k) * Legionnaire * Mercenary (64k) * Mercenary II - The Second City (64k) * Operation Hawaii (64k) * Pfad im Dschungel (64k) * Quiwi (64k) Raetsel der 7. Kolonie (64k) * Sommer Olympiade * Space Pilot * Sport Show * Starcross (64k) * Suspended (64k) * Winter Olympiade * Zork I (64k) * Zork II (64k) * Zork III (64k) -------------------------------------------------------------- CARTRIDGES: -------------------------------------------------------------- Atomic Mission Jack Attack Pirate Adventure Strange Oddyssey Viduzzles -- Frank Schnuerer *** eMail ubki@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de