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Quote from: MangeloreHi, has anyone had any experience with Wheels 128?Yes? What do you need to know?
Quote from: MangeloreI tried ordering it from CMD but their online store would fail to bring up the final checkout page...Ordering from Maurice at CMDRKey is a dicey proposition, at best.
Quote from: hydrophilic... seperate Y/C is only marginaly better than composite.Nah, you can really tell the difference between that of separate chroma/luma and that of composite when using a 1701/1702 monitor.
Quote from: RobertBChuck Peddle, one of the most important people in Commodore Business Machines, is going to appear at the Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0!Evan Koblentz, VCF East organizer, has an update on the latest VCF East news.
Quote from: nikonikoI know the final price haven't been announced yet, but would you have a ballpark guess about the price range?If I remember correctly, it was supposed to be in the $40-50 US range.
Quote from: hydrophilicMy 128 is now dead due to sheer stupidity on my part!Welcome! From where are you writing? If you still have your C128, you can send it to Ray Carlsen for repair. Or if you are near us, you can pick up another C128 from our stockpile.
Quote from: nikoniko2) How much RAM is available in the 1571s and 81s? Is it 2K like the 1541?In the 1571, it is 2K.
Quote from: nikoniko4) Is there any way to expand the RAM?A RAMBoard will give a 1541 or 1571 an extra 6K for a total of 8K available.
Quote from: nikonikoRobertB, if you're reading this, I noticed that you're listed as having preordered the C=VGA device.Yes. I also gave extra money to fund the project.
Quote from: nikonikoOver on comp.sys.cbm there were a few mentions from October and November that someone had spoken to Allan and confirmed that the device is working and complete, but that arrangements with a distributor in Florida need to be finished before it can go on sale.Yes, I saw that. (By the way, that info did not come from me.)
Quote from: nikonikoJust wondering if you've heard anything?No, I have not heard anything. Of course, I could always give Allan Bairstow a phone call to find out what's happening with the C=VGA.
Quote from: strandedinnzI've heard rumors about buying from CMDRKEY (slow shipping, none-shipping etc) .. any substance to them ?As of this month, I have been waiting for my order for 5 years, 7 months.
Quote from: strandedinnzOr is JiffyDOS available elsewhere ?Pirated copies are floating around.
Quote from: strandedinnzGot all the main things you'd like in a modern OS (gui...Well, I wouldn't call that a GUI. :-)
Quote from: Style_CHMDepends on what their understanding was. Jeri probably took partial payment with the understanding that she would reach a project milestone (whatever may have been agreed) before receiving another partial payment.A supposition.
Quote from: Style_CHMThen the DTV got in the way.It did not get in the way. It was a godsend. For 2 years Jeri worked full-time on this C-One project with only a partial payment, no other monies coming in, and no getting past the FPGA faults of the cost-reduced C-One board, no matter how much she worked on recoding her core. In colloquial terms, she had hit a wall. When Mammoth contacted her to work on the DTV, she found a regular job with regular monies coming in, a way to pay off her debts of 2 years.
Quote from: Style_CHMNo matter how you spin it, it looks like Jeri screwed Jens (and the rest of the c-one community).If you are looking for a scapegoat, I refer you back to Jens who cost-reduced the board to what we have today, a patchwork of hacks and another hack coming in the way of the "extender" board for which he will charge 99 Euros. If he had just put in the FPGAs Jeri wanted (which would have only cost a few Euros more for each board), we would not have this situation. No matter how you spin it, Jens screwed himself (ouch!) and the "community".
Quote from: Style_CHMWhat we do know is that Jeri accepted (partial) payment from Jens, but didnt deliver the required milestone as agreed.Another "milestone" supposition. What we know is that Jeri delivered the board that was required of her (cost-reduced and without Jens' having further prototype-testing to catch bugs) and that Jeri tried valiantly to get recode her core to get past the production C-One's faults.
Quote from: plbyrdJeri got paid real money by Jens to finish the NTSC Core, something she has yet to do.Ah, Jens has never told the full story. Sure Jeri was paid, but he fails to add that he only partially paid her. Boy, how many times have I heard him with that same partial story, the last being at the AmiWest Show 2006.
Quote from: plbyrd...now anytime I here Jeri has promised to do anything relating to the C-One it makes me angry...Another bit of Jens playing with words. He constantly says, "Jeri promised this... Jeri promised that", and thus deflects any responsibility he had in how the C-One turned out.
Quote from: plbyrdIf it looks like it will solve the space problems that Jeri has complained about and Jeri actually backs up her claims about the original being too restricted by implementing the NTSC core and the native C-One core we were promised, then and only then will I be happy with the C-One.If Jens had not originally skimped on the size of the FPGA's (due to saving a few Euros) and listened to Jeri's advice, there would be no need for the "extender" board. In fact, if he had produced it the original way she wanted, there would have been far less problems with transferring the NTSC core she had working in the prototype, i.e., because of the cost-reduced, handicapped production board, Jeri had to go through 12-14 hour days of intense rewrite of the NTSC core just to get it to work partially in the production board. In other words, years of problems would have been shaved off of C-One development if Jens had just put in the FPGA's Jeri wanted in the production board.
Quote from: adminWhat did you get Robert ?A digitizer tablet "which allows the PET to recognize the upper case alphabet, the 10 numerals, and several punctuation and math symbols".
Quote from: commodorIrregardless of what it was based on (D128/C64 whatever), the addition of the 64 mode ultimately crippled the machine.Irregardless of whether it was based on the D128 or C64, the addition of the C64 mode made the C128 much more useful.
Quote from: adminI got a 1mb REU!Alas, I did not get a present for my C128 but got one for my Commodore PET.
Quote from: OzOneThe C128 can trace it's roots back to the 6509 range of machines via the unreleased D128. There's a good write up about the D128 at Cameron Kaisers' site. The direct link is this - http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/d128.htmlWell, according to what Bil Herd said (from the link at the above site):
Quote from: adminWonder if he'd be willing to sell/release the code & rights ?O.K., who wants to be the first to ask him?
Quote from: MangeloreI have no means of producingI wonder if that means he has no more eproms for the use of KeyDOS.
KeyDOS in a timely manner. Sorry."
Quote from: adminWhat are these two like quality wise ?Well, I haven't crashed them yet.
They are more like text adventures with some graphics. I was able to crunch down one of them (hmm, which one? I'm not home to check) and thus eek out a little more speed out of the program. They both come with instructions printed on 8 1/2 x 11" paper inserted in a folder. The author/programmer is not named in the documention or on disk.Quote from: bill.mannI refuse to cheapen my only 1581 by connecting it to a lowly c64!I refuse to not hot-rod a C64 with my 1581!
Quote from: commodorTo get full use of the 1581 you need to have it connected to a 128.Or with JiffyDOS or with Warpspeed v2.0 or with Super Snapshot v4/v5. With those enhancements, you'd be getting significantly faster (near burst speeds) for your C64.
Quote from: bill.mannreckon we'll ever see a Commodore core for it ?The NTSC and PAL cores are already there for the CommodoreOne. Work continues on them.
Quote from: BrendonImportant though because the B128/256 grew out of these & the C128 owes more to the Series II machines than it does to the C64.That's not the feeling I got after I read the book, "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore". What is your source? (and if it is in the same book, let me know!)
Quote from: adminJanuary 5th, 1985 was the day Commodore unveiled the C128 at the Winter CES.And don't forget, 2007 marks the 30th anniversary of CBM's entry into the personal computer market with its PET computer.
