wendi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Walter H. Dick) (05/06/89)
Does anyone know of where someone can get a hardware card/cartridge that can improve the performance of the VIC chip in the 64? What I'm looking for is a card that might double the width of the screen from 320 pixels to 640 so that I can make an 80 column screen program. Four by eight characters are not very readable for the most part even though that is what many programs use if they need to do 80 columns. Any help would very appreciated! Thanks in advance! ****************************************************************************** * * * * Walter H. Dick, III * Programming Suggestions * * CS Sophomore * * * VAX/VMS systems * by * * German Department * * * Ball State University * < Lord Vader > * * wendi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu * * * * * ******************************************************************************
jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco) (05/06/89)
In comp.sys.cbm article <7125@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, wendi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Walter H. Dick) wrote: ] ] Does anyone know of where someone can get a hardware card/cartridge ] ]that can improve the performance of the VIC chip in the 64? What I'm ] ]looking for is a card that might double the width of the screen from ] ]320 pixels to 640 so that I can make an 80 column screen program. ] ]Four by eight characters are not very readable for the most part even ] ]though that is what many programs use if they need to do 80 columns. ] ]Any help would very appreciated! Thanks in advance! It's called the C128... heheheh. Seriously, there were a number of 80 column cards out a few years ago. None of them ever really caught on because very little software worked with them. Most reconfigured the internal layout of the 64, which made them incompatible with a lot of things. The Batteries Included-80 card, which I am using at this very moment, was probably the most widely accepted one. Kermit works with it, as do older versions of ARC and PaperClip. -- jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Joe Greco at FidoNet 1:154/200 USnail: 9905 W Montana Ave PunterNet Node 30 or 31 West Allis, WI 53227-3329 "These aren't anybody's opinions." Voice: 414/321-6184 Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS)
izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh) (05/07/89)
> From: jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco) > Message-ID: <2421@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> > The Batteries Included-80 card, which I am using at this very moment, > was probably the most widely accepted one. Kermit works with it, as > do older versions of ARC and PaperClip. The B.I.-80 was designed to be compatible with the Data 20 80-column card, which had already seemed to gather some software support when the folks at BI started the project. -- Geoffrey Welsh - via FidoNet node 1:221/162 UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!171!izot Internet: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG