Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C...
by Baeocystin on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:37PM
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I mean... You're not objectively wrong when looking at it overall. I pretty much never used CP/M mode besides a few times for WordStar.
But 14-year-old me loved his tremendously. 80-column mode felt so futuristic! BBSes looked amazing!
And BASIC 7 was a lot more fun than BASIC 2. I felt like I was getting away with something when I learned I could enable 2MHz mode in subroutines, and if they were fast enough, the screen wouldn't even flicker before I reverted to VIC-capable speeds. Good times.
But 14-year-old me loved his tremendously. 80-column mode felt so futuristic! BBSes looked amazing! And BASIC 7 was a lot more fun than BASIC 2. I felt like I was getting away with something when I learned I could enable 2MHz mode in subroutines, and if they were fast enough, the screen wouldn't even flicker before I reverted to VIC-capable speeds. Good times.