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Originally posted by Playa24_7 in Irishaddict's "I need as computer" thread just buy a commodore 64, and get that old school paper boy game, then your all set. hours of fun sik ass graphics YOO! *puts hat sideways* a MOS 6510 processor and 64 KB of RAM what what! NAME C 64 MANUFACTURER Commodore TYPE Home Computer ORIGIN U.S.A. YEAR 1982 END OF PRODUCTION 1993 BUILT IN LANGUAGE Basic KEYBOARD Full-stroke 66 keys with 4 function keys CPU 6510 SPEED 0.985 MHz (PAL) / 1.023 MHz (NTSC) COPROCESSOR VIC II (Video), SID (Sound) RAM 64 KB ROM 20 KB TEXT MODES 40 columns x 25 lines GRAPHIC MODES several, most used : 320 x 200 COLORS 16 + 16 border colours SOUND 3 voices / 9 octaves, 4 waveforms (sound output through TV) SIZE / WEIGHT 40.4 (W) x 21.6 (D) x 7.5 (H) cm / 1820 g I/O PORTS RGB (composite, chroma/luma and sound in/out), 2 x Joystick plugs, Cardridge slot, Tape interfarce (300 bps), Serial, User Port, TV RF output BUILT IN MEDIA Cassette unit. Provision for 170 KB 5.25'' floppy disc unit (1541) POWER SUPPLY External power supply unit PRICE $595 (USA, 1982) - £229 (U.K. 1984)

The Sound Interface Device (SID) chip sound from the MOS 6851 is still one of the coolest (IMO) sounding computer synthesisers out there...

You can even buy a MIDI-controlled hardware component that integrates an actual MOS 6851 chip with some pretty schnazzy controls:



Yummy chiptunes (link). Too bad there's only so many MOS 6851 chip in existence...

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