Posted By
MMS
on 2013-07-08
17:22:51
 |  Re: Z80 GUI: SymbOS
Well, interesting, that you mentioned the C65. Just on this week I watched some youtube movies about a working C65 machine.
With an updated GEOS (hi-res Gfx was in place to support it with 640x400x16) and faster floppy, it could a PC killer machine, capable to do even proper home office job with a Centronics printer + modem.
In 1991 it was still a little open thing, Win95 (and Plug&Play) was not in place, Win3.1 started in 1992. Wiundows 3.0 was rather bad for serious use. Amiga was too expensive and complicated for the masses. (questionmark, how much the C65 would have been cost).
Commodore +5?  Nice idea. Though extra to the missing numeric keyboard I do not see any improvement points +4 (OK, just kidding  faster floppy, more memory, HW sprite, and a little more sophisticated sound. A SuperMULTI mode (with double colormap) would have been great to better utilize the color palette (4 free colors per character) and would make games and soft-sprite a fun instead of a suffer
Maybe an integrated GUI into ROM? though running SW from ROM is typically slower than RAM)
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