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By
Mike Lee
Read me
Try this out
A
few good things
C16 Games
Tech Stuff
Commodore Items
A few good links
I
shall be updating this website in the next few weeks, time allowed
My
first ever
Commodore was a C64 board and nothing else, I got hold of a Vic20 case
that was empty and used that for a while. After that I got hold
of a
brand new C16 from W.H.Smiths a long time ago, some where in 1985 I
think it was. I went to work on an afternoon shift, my wife was
on
XZap all day until I got home as that was the main game of Interest to
her at the time. I eventualy got a look in.
When I did I loaded in Punchy nice game to start of with.
I
took a look at the C16 Basic 3.5 and realised that this machine was
pretty good just for the basic alone
Its a great pitty the memory was only 12277 bytes free, not a lot could
be done with that, but all the same it was a good computer. The
hours of fun I Had on that was great. And its good to see
websites still supporting the C16 and Plus4.
A
joystick came later a few months later in fact, so by now I was
used
to the keyboard. Then came all the magazines, my favourite
was
Commodore User that had the most C16 programs inside it. I loved
all
the hours of typing in and error checking.
Why on earth did Commodore produce units that had the mini din socket
for Joystick and cassette ports? Sorry but I think Commodore fell
down on that idea, it caused people like me and others to go out and
buy Joystick adapters to use better quality Joysticks.
Why did Commodore not have an "OLD" and "MERGE" command built into the
system? That would have been pretty good to say the least.
But having said that the gun metal coloured case made the C16
unmistable to other Commodore machines. Its easy to complain
about, but good to use, the C16 is one of those machine that to this
day still have a good following.
I
then got
myself a 32K ram expansion, but sent it back to the shop as it was
faulty.
One day my 4 year old son came along after my typing in StartTrek (many
hours of typing) and pressed the white reset button on the side, ohhhhh
was I happy, hmmm no not realy.
It wasnt until a good few years after I came to find this. POKE
4097,1:RENUMBER yes that got every thing back again even after a reset.
Use the machine code monitor on
the C16/Plus4 to enter the code between lines 60 to 110
Timeslip
Commando
Grandmaster Chess
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Commodore C16 |
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| µProcessor | 7501, 1.76 MHz |
| RAM | 16 KByte expandable up to 64 kbytes |
| ROM | 32 KByte Operating system |
| Text Display | 40 x 25 Characters |
| Graphic Display | 320 x 200 Pixels |
| Colors | 121 |
| Sound | 2 channels, mono |
| Interfaces | Video/Audio/
Serial Commodore port 2 Joystick ports (mini Din) Cassette Cartridge Expansion slot |
| Keyboard | 66 keys, 4 Function keys included |
| First released | 1984 |
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The Commodore stuff I use now.
(I will
leave out the C64 and C128 as this is more dedicated to the C16/Plus4
machines)
C16 with soon to arrive 64K expansion pack
Plus4 with brand new keyboard (thanks eBay)
Script Plus cartridge for the C16
2 original tape decks
1 Joystick adapter soon to arrive.
2 original C16 Joysticks
1 Oceanic 1541 drive unit with Jiffy DOS inside.
MPS 1230 printer
Philips CM8833_II monitor
1 XA1541 lead with StarCommander
1 Home made Video lead, clear crisp picture.
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A
few good links.
http://www.commodore16.com
bravenet.com
