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You want slow access? Try a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem?
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Exactly what it sounds like. Slot in the cart, turn on the system (in that order), insert a floppy and hit C= + RunStop (the former is supposed to be the 'Commodore' key). Improves initial diskette loading times significantly, and does not require that you actually know the name of the executable you wanna run -- it simply assumes "whatever is in the floppy drive"...Uncertain if it affects anything after the initial load, however.Quoth AdvancedFlea View Post
As mentioned, it doesn't work with everything, tho Moscow is the only game I owned that it did NOT work with. IIRC, if it cannot load something, it either craps out or just freezes the system up...Which was not exactly a huge detriment back in those days.
If you still have an actual c64, I'm sure the things are still out there, and probably cheap.Last edited by EricKei; 04-03-2014, 12:52 AM."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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There are still some demoscene groups out there doing incredible things with the C64. It has only a 1MHz CPU, but the custom graphics and sound hardware that Commodore was famous for makes all the difference. Some demos even use the CPU in the floppy drive for extra calculating power!
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I bought a 1200 baud modem a few years ago for my C64, but for some reason it would NOT work with the digital phone service we had. So it sits unused. I wonder why it didn't work?Quoth AdvancedFlea View PostComment
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Perhaps the A/D and D/A conversion alters the tones enough that the modem no longer recognizes them?Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.Comment
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It's more likely that the *compression* applied to digital phone services destroys the information in the signal. A 1200-baud modem uses two tones alternately, the precise pattern of this alternation containing the data. After compression, I wouldn't be surprised if it was squashed into just the two tones continuously - which is pretty close to what it sounds like to the human ear.Comment
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Oh. Well, it's a moot point now, as I no longer have a landline at all. And if I figured out a way to plug it into my cell phone, it would probably do the same thing, only worse.Comment
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