XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET (05/10/91)
I am tickled to know that I could generate some interest in the old sx-64 by mentioning it! For those of you that wrote me asking for Grapvine's Address and phone: The Grapevine Group Inc. 3 Chestnut Street Suffern, New York 10901 1-800-292-7445 This company is also a good source for reasonably priced Commodore IC's, etc. They also carry stuff for disk drive repair, 128's and amiga. I checked with my friend regarding his sx-64; he has experienced no problems with compatibility, although he does not use or need an interface to drive his printer. I understand that the sx-64 does NOT have a tape port - this would prevent the use of several popular interfaces such as the Super Grafix JUNIOR, the G-Wiz, and several others. Since it has no tape port, would that imply that there would be modifications of the ROM to accomodate? Would programs that make calls to the tape register have problems? I understand that many programmers use calls to registers for the tape, since most folks don't use tapes these days. Color on the sx-64 is white background with cyan/green print. the tiny type is still hard to read. Kirk xwuu@purccvm
ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu (05/10/91)
In article <91129.224134XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET>, XWUU@PURCCVM.BITNET writes: > I am tickled to know that I could generate some interest in the old sx-64 > by mentioning it! > > For those of you that wrote me asking for Grapvine's Address and phone: > > The Grapevine Group Inc. > 3 Chestnut Street > Suffern, New York 10901 1-800-292-7445 > > > This company is also a good source for reasonably priced Commodore IC's, etc. > They also carry stuff for disk drive repair, 128's and amiga. > > > I checked with my friend regarding his sx-64; he has experienced no problems > with compatibility, although he does not use or need an interface to drive > his printer. I understand that the sx-64 does NOT have a tape port - this > would prevent the use of several popular interfaces such as the Super Grafix > JUNIOR, the G-Wiz, and several others. Since it has no tape port, would that > imply that there would be modifications of the ROM to accomodate? Would > programs that make calls to the tape register have problems? I understand that > many programmers use calls to registers for the tape, since most folks don't > use tapes these days. > > Color on the sx-64 is white background with cyan/green print. the tiny type > is still hard to read. > > > Kirk > xwuu@purccvm Yes there were changes to the ROMS to accomodate the lack of a tape port. The DOS ROM was also different. However , according to book I read about 5 years ago, Commodore minimized the changes for compatibility & even left alot of code intact even if it wasn't needed. Several people in the LUG I belong to have mentioned in times past that the SX wasn't fully compatible but I never asked for details since I didn't have one. PHIL