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From: houde@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Francois Houde)
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Subject: Re: Miscellaneous CBM64 questions to end the year :-)
Keywords: ultimax
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Date: 10 Dec 90 02:48:23 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.014321.14609@frey.nu.oz.au> c8923075@frey.nu.oz.au (Chris Baird) writes:
>Q4:	ULTIMAX ---- One fine night (~1am) I was looking through the memory
>	configurations & noticed the lay-out for the never released ULTIMAX.
>	It wasn't difficult to see why; 4K RAM, 8K ROM & 4K I/O. Yuck,,,,
>	Question :- How far did Commodore get with this? Is there source
>	code for the Kernal lying around somewhere, and how different would
>	it have been from the std. 64? (Kernal & Char ROM, etc)

Ultimax :
  I think that was the Commodore Max Machine, a game machine which had the
same architecture as the C-64 (Sound,video,sprites) but ONLY 4k ram for the
video buffers. (I think that was 16k actually) Remember the game
cartridges? (omega race, kickman, mouse trap) these were made to work both on
C-64 and Max.  Another case of the "machine that never saw the light of day"
thread.

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