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Interesting, having only used one a handful of times, what makes it your favourite?

• JohnFen 8y ago
  A lot of things! I really liked working with the VIC and SID chips, I really enjoyed how utterly hackable the system was in terms of adding custom-made hardware or modifying the board, and so forth. But I think what I liked best about it was the memory banking. There was RAM installed in the same address space as the system ROMs. You could always write to the RAM, and could choose whether reading would happen from the RAM or the ROM. This meant that you could easily modify the system by copying the ROM contents into the underlying RAM and then edit them to your heart's content. Or just turn the ROM off entirely and write machine code utilizing the full 64K. It was tons of fun. Also, although this is not C64 specific, I loved the floppy drive because it was a real standalone computer in its own right, which you could program. This let you do multiprocessor stuff back when multiprocessor systems were expensive niche things.
  • GlenTheMachine 8y ago
    "This let you do multiprocessor stuff back when multiprocessor systems were expensive niche things." I did that! Got a trip to the International Science Fair for it.
  • yardstick 8y ago
    That is interesting, thanks!