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From: jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Hardware, 64C
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Date: 6 May 89 13:44:23 GMT
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In comp.sys.cbm article <7125@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, wendi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Walter H. Dick) wrote:
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]	Does anyone know of where someone can get a hardware card/cartridge
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]that can improve the performance of the VIC chip in the 64?  What I'm
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]looking for is a card that might double the width of the screen from 
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]320 pixels to 640 so that I can make an 80 column screen program.  
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]Four by eight characters are not very readable for the most part even
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]though that is what many programs use if they need to do 80 columns.
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]Any help would very appreciated!  Thanks in advance!  

It's called the C128... heheheh.

Seriously, there were a number of 80 column cards out a few years ago.
None of them ever really caught on because very little software worked
with them.  Most reconfigured the internal layout of the 64, which
made them incompatible with a lot of things.

The Batteries Included-80 card, which I am using at this very moment,
was probably the most widely accepted one.  Kermit works with it, as
do older versions of ARC and PaperClip.
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