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Commodore 128 Globe demo better than Amiga Boing Demo?
« on: February 14, 2008, 12:37:06 AM »
Going through old disks and hardware I found this CLD 1750 REU (512k) Test Demo disk with Globe 128 demo, HERE. I find this pretty amazing and better than the famous boing demo, considering it is almost as old and on an older computer.

BTW, no the SuperCPU was not even plugged in for this demo.
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Re: Commodore 128 Globe demo better than Amiga Boing Demo?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 12:46:22 AM »
Reminds me of the old BBC intermissions.
 

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Re: Commodore 128 Globe demo better than Amiga Boing Demo?
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 12:59:00 AM »
You make me miss all my C-128 and 64 stuff sometimes.  I had everything CMD made and 2 or 3 of each.  I sold most of the desireable stuff on Ebay 2 or 3 years ago.  I just had to make a decision which hobbies to keep and the Amiga and the Corvette won, and my 128 & 64 stuff lost.  When you talk about the speed of doing things with the Super CPU & Ram Link & CMD HD I know exactly what you are talking about.  I beta-tested most of Maurice Randall's Wheels and other GEOS stuff.

What made me give up on the 8 bit stuff was the inability to do anything to improve graphics.  It was built into the computers with no way around the bottleneck.  With my Amiga I can still put a jpeg picture on my computer screen and it looks every bit as good as it does on a clone.  Your C64/128 set-up can't do that.  The best you're gonna do is an interlaced picture on a 128 with the Lace II viewer.  Don't get me wrong, I was into everything Commodore 8 bit for almost 20 years and had built up a massive collection.  

I still have somethings to sell but it is mostly common, heavy hardware.  I do have a couple of 128D's to sell including my super-duper one I used as my main 8-bit.  It had internal stereo, internal cooling fan, a programmed chip in the empty socket, jiffy-dos, an internal rom and switch to change the screen font, switch to change internal drive address, and several other modifications.

Dan