Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cbmvax!fred From: fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Cartridge Port Message-ID: <3231@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 29 Jan 88 15:44:33 GMT References: <3021@killer.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article <3021@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes: > Ultimax mode... only 4K of RAM is accessible. Period. You can't read any other > RAM, and, what's even more mystifying, you can't WRITE any other RAM. Boggles > one's mind... "WHAT the HECK is THAT in there for?!". > > Eric Lee Green elg@usl.CSNET Asimov Cocktail,n., A verbal bomb The Ultimax (aka Max Machine) was intended to be the cheapest CBM system, below or possibly replacing the VIC-20. It was primarily a game machine using the VIC-II chip, just like his brother the C64. He did not even have BASIC in ROM, although a BASIC cartridge was to be available. Well, in the US at least, Max died in infancy but not before leaving his mark on the C64, which was (ta-da) two machines in one, a Max and a C64. (So I suppose you could say then that the C128 is really FOUR machines in one, with Max still in its heart ;-) -- -- Fred Bowen uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|caip}!cbmvax!fred arpa: cbmvax!fred@RUTGERS.EDU tele: 215 431-9100 Commodore Electronics, Ltd., 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA, 19380