Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!ray From: ray@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Ray Moody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Sound, T. Ball, Code. Message-ID: <1898@pur-phy> Date: 20 Jan 89 04:16:52 GMT References: Sender: news@pur-phy Reply-To: ray@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Ray Moody) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 22 In-reply-to: js9b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. Slenk) [This posting is for my roommate] In article , js9b+@andrew (Jon C. Slenk) writes: >5) Uh, ok, _this_ is last: are there any good 80 column cards for the c-64? I >would love to turn this 40column beast into something really useful, but it is >slow, and old, and boring, and I want an AMIGA (don't we all...). The best 80-column card, in my opinion, was the BI-80 from Batteries Included. It is no longer being manufactured, but you might be able to find someone here on the net with one for sale-- a friend of mine did about a year ago. This card produces a text display that is virtually indistinguishable from the C-128's 80-column mode. It works best with a monochrome monitor, though-- it doesn't cut it all on a TV or monitor like the CBM 1702. (Also, C-64/128 Kermit v2.1 and later supports this card-- a nice plus-- and so does the older Paperclip word processor from Batteries Included.) The only other 80-column card I have ever used is the Data-20 80-column card. It wasn't nearly as nicely done, in my opinion, and was SLOW scrolling, even in 40 column mode, because it used its own video chip even for this mode. Kent Sullivan