Homepages?

[xlar54]

Curious, do any of you maintain a blog site or website (C= related of course).

[Blacklord]

Curious, do any of you maintain a blog site or website (C= related of course).

Can I answer this too ?

Lance

[Stephane Richard]

I don't have a C related website though I am thinking about it.  I don't wanna make a forum per se, there's plenty of those.  just a website...however, to keep that interesting with continuously updated contents, I'd probably make it about any and all commodore computers.  ;-).  Each with it's own section. Maybe a wiki or something :-).

[airship]

I have my INFO magazine history site, which includes some information on Commodore itself. It's at http://www.atomicairship.com/infomag.htm

[RobertB]

...website (C= related of course).

Sure.  Our FCUG webpage connects to our treasurer's website at

http://www.dickestel.com/commodore.htm

Merry Christmas!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[wte]

Curious, do any of you maintain a blog site or website (C= related of course).

Yes, but in German (sorry...)

Blog: http://blog.c128.net
Website: http://www.c128.net
Website: http://www.mysoft128.de

WTE

[bjorn a]

Yes, I have a site too, but in Swedish..

www.commodore.se

/bjorn a

[Steve Gray]

I have a site dedicated to the CBM-II series and to my Commodore collection:

http://ca.geocities.com/sjgray@rogers.com/index.html

Steve

[xlar54]

Nice site, sjgray... the CBM line isnt spoken of much here in north america (from my recollection).  I had no idea they were 8-bit machines either. Pretty cool.  6509s... wonder how hard it would be to emulate them with the VICE core.

[airship]

We used two B-series machines from Protecto to run the business side of INFO=64 in the 8-bit days. They were used for billing & accounting, printing mailing labels for subscribers, keeping the Product Roundup database, just about everything. Nice machines, and the best cases (Porsche-designed) ever put on a Commodore computer.

[wte]

Nice machines, and the best cases (Porsche-designed) ever put on a Commodore computer.

Nice machines --> I agree!
Porsche-designed --> an old mistake! The design is from Ira Velinsky [link]

The first PET prototype already had this nice design (expensive => cancelled).
[http://www.commodore.ca/products/pet/commodore_pet.htm]
But the normal production was "pharao-like".

WTE

[wte]

6509s... wonder how hard it would be to emulate them with the VICE core.

... it would be ...?
VICE emulates CBM II! (use xcbm2.exe) [only 80 column graphic P 6x0 and P 7x0; no P500 / B128]

WTE

[Stephane Richard]

Airship, do you happen to remember if the CBM-IIs you had offered something better for data storage back then? either a db system or random access files (binary files maybe even)?  to speed up data searches and reporting?

[xlar54]

6509s... wonder how hard it would be to emulate them with the VICE core.

... it would be ...?
VICE emulates CBM II! (use xcbm2.exe) [only 80 column graphic P 6x0 and P 7x0; no P500 / B128]

WTE

Well I'll be darned - youre right.  I never associated the B-series with the CBM series.. I always for some reason thought they were different.  Good to know, thanks!

[airship]

MS, I know we used B128 versions of Superbase and Superscript with CBM IEEE dual 8080 floppies for storage. No hard drive at all. Protecto offered the software as well as the hardware at closeout prices. I'll try to find an old ad for them.

[Steve Gray]

MS, I know we used B128 versions of Superbase and Superscript with CBM IEEE dual 8080 floppies for storage. No hard drive at all. Protecto offered the software as well as the hardware at closeout prices. I'll try to find an old ad for them.

I have Superscript II. Only software I bought for the machine. Here is an ad from my page:

http://ca.geocities.com/sjgray@rogers.com/CBM/ad_protecto.jpg

Steve