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Commodore Trivia 38
----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #38 Questions and Answers Preface----
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----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #38 Questions and Answers (BEGIN)----
Q $250) For years, Commodore owners have purchased Commodore printers with
model numbers like MPS801, MPS802, MPS802, and MPS1000. What does
'MPS' stand for?
A $250) Matrix Printer Serial.
Q $251) For the introduction of the 264 Series (Plus/4), Commodore produced
a letter quality printer called the DPS1101. What does 'DPS' stand
for?
A $251) Daisy Print Serial
Q $252) What does CBM DOS error number 75 mean and which drive(s) does it
appear in?
A $252) I was looking for "Format Error". This error occurs on the 1581.
However, Todd Elliott mentions this also appears on the 8250 as
"Format Speed Error".
Q $253) What does CBM DOS error number 76 mean and which drive(s) does it
appear in?
A $253) Controller Error. It appears first on the 1581. It implied that
the MFM controller was not functioning correctly.
Q $254) How many characters per inch does a VIC 1515 printer print when in
normal mode?
A $254) 10 cpi.
Q $255) How large (in bytes) is the internal VIC 1525 printer buffer?
A $255) 90 bytes.
Q $256) How many revolutions per minute does a 1541 disk drive disk
rotate at?
A $256) 300 rpm
Q $257) On Commodore disk drives, where is track 1 located: outside, middle,
or inside of disk?
A $257) Outside.
Q $258) Which Commodore 8-bit machine(s) came stock with stereo SID sound?
A $258) The Commodore 64DX (65)
Q $259) On the 64 and 128, which joystick port is closest to the power
connector: 1 or 2?
A $259) Joystick Port 2
Q $25A) The Commodore 1520 plotter can print in how many colors?
A $25A) 4 colors. Default colors are red, green, blue, and black.
Q $25B) The 8050 disk drive creates how many tracks on a floppy disk?
A $25B) 77
Q $25C) What dot matrix printer matches the color scheme of the CBM Plus/4?
A $25C) The MPS 803.
Q $25D) How many "mirrors" of the VIC-II IC registers appear in the 64 memory map?
A $25D) 16. The VIC-II only contains enough addressing for 64 bytes, so
the registers repeat every 64 bytes.
Q $25E) Which location in C64 memory contains the 6510 Data Direction Register?
A $25E) Location 0.
Q $25F) What is the significance of $fffe-$ffff in 65XX CPUs?
A $25F) Whenever an IRQ happens, the CPU fetches the location of the routine
that will handle the IRQ from these addresses.
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