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I keep forgetting that the Atari 2600, the NES, the Apple II and the C64 had the same processor. But... didn't the C64 have a modem? So it should be able to c
by Endy 9y ago
I keep forgetting that the Atari 2600, the NES, the Apple II and the C64 had the same processor. But... didn't the C64 have a modem? So it should be able to connect to the Internet, even if very slowly?
- ajuc 9y agoProbably everyone reading this (including you) already know that, but my OC forces me to specify, that C64 had MOS 6510, which was an improved version of 6502.
- gaius 9y agoYes the 6510 had an on-chip cassette interface. State-of-the-art. Ran at 1Mhz tho', the Beeb ran at 2Mhz making it the beast in the 8-bit stable.
- Annatar 9y agoThe 6510 ran at 2 MHz on the C= 128 if the VIC was turned off. https://wphosting.tv/how-to-use-the-commodore-c128-in-2mhz-fast-mode/ https://wphosting.tv/how-to-use-the-commodore-c128-in-2mhz-f...
- msla 9y agoWhile we're nitpicking, the NES used the RP2A03 running at 1.79 MHz in NTSC regions and RP2A07 running at 1.66 MHz in PAL regions. https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/CPU https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/CPU
- simcop2387 9y agoThis'll probably kill the site for a bit from the load, but http://oldservers.ddns.net/index.html http://oldservers.ddns.net/index.html
- thwarted 9y agoThe C64 did not have a built in modem, but a number of them were available as an add-on. There was a trick where you could "overclock" a certain 300 baud modem to 450 baud, cutting download times significantly. I never had a IP stack for it, but I did use my Commodore machines to dial into a shell account and use the internet available at the time (telent and ftp), and to MUD. I believe the terminal program I used had full ANSI support.
- Brockenstein 9y agoAlthough in 2017 data usage; 50% faster than forever is still forever.
- thwarted 9y agoOh, I remember it taking multiple days to pirate^Wdownload software that took multiple disks. And call-waiting wasn't your friend, getting kicked off of the one phone line the entire house had at their disposal. You're right, 50% faster than forever is still forever, and/but 50% faster than multiple days is still multiple days. That being said, I had quite the software library.
- forinti 9y agoThe 2600 actually had a simpler version of the 6502 called 6507. It had fewer address lines and could only handle 8KB.
- deepnet 9y agoAnd the British Acorn BBC Model B, which led to Acorn Risk Machines and ARM Cores - one of the UK's finest ever exports.
- MagerValp 9y agoSure, there are modems and serial ports, ranging from 300 to 115200 bps, but since 2002 there are 10 Mb Ethernet cards too. I wrote a TCP/IP stack for it: http://oliverschmidt.github.io/ip65/ http://oliverschmidt.github.io/ip65/