Commander X16

I second the like for Dell 4:3 monitors. I had been using a 17" Dell (with VGA and DVI input) as the second screen on my Linux desktop, which I've moved into reserve for when my X16 arrives. A few weeks ago I found another Dell monitor (19", with only VGA input) for $7 at a thrift store, a...

Speaking of bells and whistles... nobody ever seemed to make use of the 6-bit DAC, which was quite sophisticated for the time, and was there from the start with the Coco 1. You only ever seemed to hear the 1-bit square wave tone generator from any of the in-house software. But there are a few demos...

If you were to introduce a trick to *modify* data by writing a value based on its previous value, then you're introducing a fundamental change to the way it would have to work, as it would need more clock cycles to read, modify, and write back, and would introduce new complexity in the VERA design....

I've been using microcomputers for nearly fifty years. I owned several different American 8-bit computers during those early days. I first learned BASIC on a PET 2001 with the terrible keyboard and built-in datasette. I regret letting go of some of the 8-bit systems I used to own (I have none now, u...