Re: about the plus4

On 2012-04-19, at 21:43, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

>>> Yeah. From the other hand, Basic 3.5 and Tedmon usually comes very
>>> handy. IMHO the Plus/4 has been way more friendly to beginners than
>>> Commodore's other "cheap" machines.
>> 
>> Yes... That still annoys me... The C64 had all the great
>> capabilities but no BASIC support for it, not even a monitor
>> (something like TIM from the CBM series would have been enough for
>> me) while the 264 series had the great BASIC 3.5 but lacked the
>> sound and video capabilities.
> 
> In fact, I always considered this to be an advantage of the C64.
> 
> Why? Everyone trying to do sound and/or video was forced to learn about
> peek, poke, and the like. From there, it was not very far to learn
> assembly.
> 
> With many other machines with their fancy BASIC, people got stuck with
> the BASIC. Thus, they never considered really learning about the inner
> parts of their machine.

I second that with one exception. A built-in ML monitor definitely wouldn't hurt. Sure, once I started plugging in my carts I had all I needed but before that it was a PITA. I recall I bought a German publication and typed in the first decent monitor. It was a hell of a job to find all the errors I made while typing in...

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SD!


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