Posted By
Hans
on 2015-06-12
02:51:55
|  Re: Best applications to show off a Plus/4
Steven,
By taking your subject "Best applications...." literally, I can recommend SVS-Calc, a state-of-the-art spreadsheet, and of course Script/Plus, the sophisticated word processor.
It is also worth to point out that the Plus/4 was equipped with a kind of office suite named 3-plus-1 which was available on an instant from an internal ROM bank, just by pressing the F1 key. The quality of this "suite" was, however, rather poor. Many users have thrown out the 3-plus-1 ROMs (which were socketed, no desolderuing/soldering necessary) and replaced them by more usable stuff which was stored in eproms.
Games & demos you'll find by the megaton here on Plus4world and elsewhere.
But you may know that the Commodore Plus/4 had not been deveolped as a gaming machine but, as described above, for office use. Its lack of sprites and the limited sound capabilities (unless enhanced by 3rd party developments & additional hardware) make the Plus/4 looking poor compared to a C64.
The Plus/4 graphics capabilities are, however, even ahead of the C64. Plus/4 = 121 colours (theoretically), and C64 = 16 colours.
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