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From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
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Subject: Re: sx-64
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Date: 8 May 91 20:26:19 GMT
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In article <31.28280204@zswamp.uucp> root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>In a letter to All, Bill Brown (wbrown@beva.bev.lbl.gov ) wrote:
>
>>There must be some differences - "Hess Forth" (cartrige) 
>>doesn't work in my sx - it just "hangs solid".  I've never
>>figured out why.
>
>   Bizarre!  As far as I know, the only difference between a Kernal 3 C64 and 
>the SX-64 is a change to make the RUN key (that's SHIFT-RUN/STOP) load from 
>the disk drive in stead of the cassette port (which the SX doesn't have).

I don't remember if the SX defaults to disk or not (if not, it would be very
annoying).  I do remember that the screen colors were different; blue on blue
didn't show up too well on the little monitor, apparently.

I don't know if the HesForth cartridge would be screwed up by the Kernal mods
or not.  I have a suspiscion, though, that it isn't hanging, just changing the
text color to something which shows up fine on blue, but doesn't on the white
(I think) background of the SX.  I could easily be wrong, though, since I have
neither an SX nor a HesForth cartridge to test.

--Andrew