Thursday, April 16, 2009

4. Commodore 64

Reasonably standard however this one had a nice surprise, picked it up for $3 from Sth Hobart tip shop and when I got home I realised it had a "turbo rom" installed, can't find any info about the particular type, can only assume some guy called Peter created it. There's a switch on the back to toggle it on/off. For those keeping score at home I managed to load GEOS a whole THREE SECONDS FASTER using when I used the turbo rom combined with EPYX fastload cartridge. Hell yeah.

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  1. smudgeonApril 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Quote from Wikipedia:

    "At its peak, GEOS was the third most popular operating system in the world in terms of units shipped"

    Units shipped being the operative word. Seeing as it was much easier to type LOAD"*",8,1 only once (instead of loading GEOS, then booting World Championship Cricket from inside it), I doubt it was really an operating system of choice.

    Just thought I'd share.

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