12 Jan
2012
12 Jan
'12
8:01 p.m.
On 01/12/2012 01:11 AM, Lance Lyon wrote:
I was just razzing Liam since he hates it so much. I have very
little experience with or knowledge of Commodore BASIC.
Are there
any other hardware differences that you're aware of? Does
it run the same SUPER AWESOME AMAZINGLY ADVANCED BASIC (sorry Liam, I
couldn't resist! ;)) that the "ordinary" 64 runs?
"Super Awesome" is not exactly how'd I'd describe BASIC 2.0 .......
Major difference is with the SID chip - the new SIDs
aren't as good as the
older ones (sound-wise). The PC board is also mostly all surface mount and
with a reduced chip count. Apart from that, largely the same as the old
breadboxes.
Ahh, gotcha. Thank you for the info.
I wonder why they downgraded the SID chip. Cost reasons?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA