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Article #5Re: [OT] Wanted: ADF Download sites/CD for Amiga??
From: Peter Corlett
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56
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Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote: [...] > "MUCH MUCH better SPECTRUM"? The same Spectrum which had 8-colour graphics > at 240*120 256x192. 16 colours if you include "bright" mode. > or something instead of 16-colour graphics at 320*200? > The same Spectrum which had "beep, beep" sounds Worse, it was a polled-IO single bit on an output port. > instead of 3-channel 4-waveform sound? The same Spectrum which had usually > 16k memory (48k if you were really lucky) 48k was fairly standard for the Spectrum. 16k Spectrums were quite rare and wouldn't run most of the software available for it anyway. > instead of 64k as standard? 16kB of ROM and 48kB of RAM, to fill the address space completely. To put more into it involves faffing around with bank switching. Later models of Spectrum had bank-switched memory to give it 128kB, but I don't recall it being a particularly heavily-used feature. > What is so "MUCH MUCH better" about it? For some reason, the British are > wacko over their Spectrums. I always thought there was something odd about > the British. The Spectrum was dirt cheap and readily available, and many people migrated to it from the even cheaper ZX81.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103f72,d875495ffc9d5831 X-Google-Attributes: gid103f72,public X-Google-Thread: fecca,d875495ffc9d5831 X-Google-Attributes: gidfecca,public X-Google-Thread: f7e4d,d875495ffc9d5831 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e4d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-16 04:56:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!lon1-news.nildram.net!news-peer.gradwell.net!news.cabal.org.uk!not-for-mail From: abuse@mooli.org.uk (Peter Corlett) Newsgroups: amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: [OT] Wanted: ADF Download sites/CD for Amiga?? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: cabal.org.uk news service, Leeds, UK. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <atkihe$85m$1@mooli.org.uk> References: <ncRK9.62372$hK4.5150557@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <ati65b$bca$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> <d4opvu0n1h1bo89dtb648sa11di88efjs9@4ax.com> <atk0om$gd2$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: mooli.org.uk X-Trace: mooli.org.uk 1040043374 8374 195.92.99.54 (16 Dec 2002 12:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@mooli.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: abuse@mooli.org.uk (Peter Corlett)