The "universal Retro-computer replacement"

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Thu Oct 31 10:45:00 2002

And thusly Jens =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6nfeld?= spake:
> At 10:49 AM 10/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Am I correct in saying that the C1 now can "be" many other
> >non-Commodore systems instead of a system with a native mode and just
> >the C64 mode?
>
> Right. I'm really looking forward to playing Atari 2600 games on it, and to
> turn it into my first machine ever, the Sinclair ZX-81.
>
> I visited Jeri and Courtney this summer in Miami, and only a day after I
> left, Jeri wrote to me and said that she had produced a version that makes
> the board a VIC-20.
>
> Although Jeri never really told the Schneider-CPC guys that she would help
> them making a new machine (they announced it, but did not get her
> permission), her board is now the "universal Retro-computer replacement". I
> guess Schneider CPC is a fairly low priority, 'cause neither me, nor any of
> my friends ever owned one, but it's possible. Just download a file from the
> internet, write it to the CF card, plug it in and you have a new machine.
> That's what "reconfigurable computer" is about.
>
> ciao,
> --
> Jens Sch=F6nfeld
Received on Thu Oct 31 2002 - 10:45:00 GMT

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