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Commodore Trivia 18
-------Commodore Trivia Edition #18 Questions and Answers Preface--------
Not to leave you in the dark for too long, here are the trivia
answers to the previous edition of Commodore Trivia. I am posting the
answers at this time, and will post the scores and winners in a few
days. This time frame is set up to allow time for any discussions on the
correctness of these answers. By this time, the newest edition of
trivia has been posted. I encourage you to enter it.
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Q $110) What is the name of the company that recently purchased the
liquidated Commodore assets?
A $110) ESCOM recently purchased the liquidations of Commodore Amiga.
GMT Electronics had earlier purcased the IC fabrication division
called Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG).
Q $111) At one time, Commodore attempted to manufacture a dual drive
version of the 1571 called the 1572. For what technical reason
did it utimately fail?
A $111) One must remember that the 1571 DOS was a descendant of the 1540
DOS, which was in turn a descendant of the earlier dual drive IEEE
drives. To make the 1572, Commodore engineers tried to re-introduce
the dual drive code that had been removed when Commodore started
producing single disk drives. Unfortunately, the re-introduction
did not ultimately succeed.
Q $112) Over what computer system did a User Group sue Commodore and win?
Q $112) The Commodore B-128 line. Story has it that the B-128 User's Group
sued Commodore because they claimed to support the B-128 after CBM
had closed down production of the B series. The suit demanded that
all materials needed in manufacturing and supporting the machine was
to be handed over to the User's Group. This included masks of the
ICs, source code for BASIC and DOS, and schematics.
Q $113) In $103, the question asked how to create a graphic of a small box
on the 1525. In this quesrtion, we have made a different design.
If you wanted to create the following graphic using individual
dots on the printer, what bytes would you send to the printer after
turning on graphics mode?
** * *
* ***
* ** ***
* * * * *
** ** * *
* *
**
A $113) The following bytes would be sent to the printer:
142, 145, 145, 128, 252, 212, 168, 128, 159, 134, 159
Q $114) (Some C65 questions) How many SID chips does the the development
Commodore 65 machine contain?
A $114) 2. The Commodore C65 has stereo output.
Q $115) What CPU does the Commodore 65 use?
A $115) The CSG65EC02, running at 3.54 MHz.
Q $116) What is the alternate name for the Commodore 65?
A $116) Some versions of the prototype C65 are referred to as the Commodore
64DX.
Q $117) How many processors does the internal 1581-compatible drive
on the C65 contain?
A $117) none. This is interesting, as Commodore started with two CPUs per
drive (IEEE 8050, etc), went to 1 (1540, etc.), and finally cost
reduced the CPU completely out of the drive electronics.
Q $118) In the tradition of naming certain ICs after famous cartoon
characters, one of the ICs in the C65 is named after a Warner
Brothers cartoon character. Which one?
A $118) Elmer (Elmer Fudd).
Q $119) What version of BASIC is included on the Commodore 65 in C65 mode?
A $119) Basic v10.0.
Q $11A) How many I/O ports does a Commodore 65 contain?
A $11A) 2 joystick ports,
1 power supply port,
1 expansion port,
1 serial port,
1 user port,
2 audio ports,
1 RGB video port,
1 RF output port,
1 composite video port,
1 high speed disk drive port,
1 Ram expansion connector (under unit behind cover).
13 ports in all. (12 if you discount the PS plug).
Q $11B) What common Commodore 64 I/O port does the C65 NOT have?
A $11B) A cassette port.
Q $11C) How many function keys are on a Commodore 65?
A $11C) Depending on whether you count the "help" key as a function, there
are 7 or 8 physical keys, which provide F1-F14 plus help.
Q $11D) What CBM disk drive DOS was used as the template for the internal
C65 drive DOS?
Q $11E) What resolution of text screen does the C65 power up in? (Please
give answers in characters).
A $11E) 80x25.
Q $11F) What distinguishing non-textual characteristic in the C65 is not
present in othe Commodore 8-bit computers?
A $11F) The systems powers up with a multicolored banner on the upper left
portion of the screen. It has 6 lines of decreasing lengths in
red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, and purple.
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