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Post by wsoft on Apr 16, 2024 10:45:58 GMT
In 1992 I moved from Mannheim Germany to Modesto California. That was the transisition from WsDos v3 to v4 due to a slight glitch in using a BMI command to wait until the screen switched (to avoid flickering) otherwise it was the same thing. Back in those days, Commodore was still alive but (unbeknownst to me), only barely. I remember calling them in 1993 to order a couple of 1581 power supplies cuz the ones I had were the European kind. They were very polite and had what I needed. That was the last time I ever had any kind of correspondence with them.
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Post by c128old on Apr 16, 2024 17:38:04 GMT
If you ordered ‘a couple of’ 1581 PSUs… you must’ve sunk a boatload of Deutchmarks into your setup! Those c128 peripherals weren’t cheap ‘here’ in Europe.
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Post by wsoft on Apr 28, 2024 20:51:32 GMT
Nothing was cheap back then. The 1581 I bought costed me about 300 DM (back in the days before the EU ever happened). In fact I bought it from some Geos user group and I am sorry if I forget their name. When I got back to the States in 1992, Commodore was still there but only barely. Commodore helped me reconfigure the German C128 I'd brought back home with me to work on an NTSC system. All I had to do was cut a wire, solder in a VIC-20 timer and throw in an NTSC VIC chip. And, as we all remember the German stuff had an entirely different plug, much different than the American ones. The NTSC PS replacements were cheap enough as I remember, although I forget what I paid for the (3) I ordered.
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