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From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: New C64 - Should I get new one and where?
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Date: 29 May 90 05:15:23 GMT
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In comp.sys.cbm article <348.265E0FC6@hogbbs.FidoNet.Org>, jar@hogbbs.FidoNet.Org (Thet Hegreathahaha) wrote:
:for games it will be fine, but for anything with speech, chances are 
:you won't be able to understand it, or if you can, it certianly won't 
:be clear. (A perfect example of this is Jordan & Burd go One on 
:One...the speech ISN'T THERE when played on a 64C, but sounds great on 

This is a testament to Commodore's chip design dep't - the SID has been
redesigned somewhat to eliminate the annoying pops generated by changing
volume settings.  Programs which used this undocumented "feature" - popping
- get exactly what they deserve.

Flaming an improvement in the hardware isn't very bright.  We don't get
loads of these; I'll take what I can get.  :-)

:(music, sprites, other stuff), you will commonly find a bunch of dots 
:filling the boarder...looks neat at first, but after 80 programs of 
:this, you'll find it rather annoying... My suggestion- eather buy a 

Never seen this.  Huh.  Commodore, have any comment?

... Joe