Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
edlinfan
(22:36:20)
franz o/
franz_opa
(22:35:51)
g'night
franz_opa
(22:35:49)
so much features...
mirrorbird
(22:35:21)
many screen modes, from "fat" MODE 2 (all colours, wide pixels, 16? 20? chars/line, and eats memory) up to 80 chars/line with no colours, good for text. sound came directly out of the keyboard and was FRICKIN' LOUD. so edu games asked "S=sound, Q=quiet".
mirrorbird
(22:33:29)
franz: had 5.25" floppy drive (not very reliable), you could also get software on ROM chip for instant access, i had a wordprocessor chip, & one for synthesised speech, & one for printing bitmaps (of course most 8-bits could only send text printouts).
edlinfan
(22:33:24)
It sure sounds similar
edlinfan
(22:33:00)
I wonder how Philips SAA1099 compared to the AY besides double channel count
mirrorbird
(22:28:47)
i did have one, but it was second-hand. pretty cool. very expandable, very beautifully designed. like how a unix nerd would design a computer.
mirrorbird
(22:28:19)
they were expensive so mostly not a 'home' computer unless you were a teacher's kid
mirrorbird
(22:27:46)
yes, they were big in schools in the early-mid 80s, because it was designed as an official 'standard'/benchmark computer, for the BBC. (they had TV shows about "learn how to compute")
