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Commodore Trivia 28
-------Commodore Trivia Edition #28 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
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-------Commodore Trivia Edition #28 Questions and Answers (BEGIN)--------
Q $1B0) What was COMPUTE!'s original sub title?
A $1B0) "The Journal for Progressive Computing".
Q $1B1) After COMPUTE! was absorbed by General Media, how did the name
change?
A $1B0) The name, having gained an exclamation point and lost a period many
years before, reverted back to the period as the ending punctuation.
Q $1B2) What Commodore content magazine was named after a nautical term?
A $1B0) "Ahoy!"
Q $1B3) What Commodore content magazine was named after a BASIC keyword?
A $1B0) "RUN"
Q $1B4) What CPU gets control first when a Commodore 128 is booted?
A $1B0) The Z80 CPU has control first.
Q $1B5) What CPU powered the Commodore C900?
A $1B0) The Zilog Z8000, from the company who borught us the popular Z80.
Q $1B6) How large is the monitor installed in the SX64?
A $1B0) 5" diagonal.
Q $1B7) What color scheme does the SX64 boot up into?
A $1B0) White screen with cyan border and blue text.
Q $1B8) What is printed as the stock SX64 boot up screen?
A $1B0) ***** SX-64 BASIC V2.0 *****
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
_
Q $1B9) The SX64 has a reset switch behind the door that holds the
monitor controls. What is strange about the rest switch?
A $1B0) The reset switch only resets the disk drive. Most people assume it
resets the entire computer system.
Q $1BA) What common port is not included on the SX64?
A $1B0) The Cassette Port.
Q $1BB) In the mid 1980's, a company called Berkeley Softworks created
a graphical user environment for the Commodore 64. What was it
called?
A $1B0) Graphical Environment Operating System (GEOS).
Q $1BC) Berkeley Softworks eventually changed their name to what?
A $1B0) GEOWorks. They now develop the GEOS OS for Personal Digital
Assistants (PDA).
Q $1BD) Most everyone is familiar with MSD disk drives. What does MSD
stand for?
A $1B0) Micro Systems Development, Inc.
Q $1BE) On the NMOS 6502, what two addressing modes have but one opcode
each that can operate in that mode?
A $1B0) Actually, there is only one such mode, indirect. jmp (xxxx) is
the only opcode that can utilize that addressing mode.
Q $1BF) How many transfer register opcodes are there on the NMOS 6502?
A $1B0) 6 (TAX, TAY, TSX, TXA, TXS, TYA).
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