Posted By
MMS
on 2016-06-07
18:37:57
 |  Re: How are looking Plussy users on Commodore 128's VDC video device?
Hi,
I always found the VDC as a fantastic device and great achivement of big resolution on 8 bit machines. I felt sad, how complicated to reach and program that 16k (or 64k). I think this (and the slow down of C128 by VIC-II) were the main reasons, why C128 could not be evena bigger success (though 2 million sold units is not bad at all).
The VDC resolution 640x400 was such a nice resolution for a productivity SW, like GEOS, that with the proper size of RAM, it is almost the same like EGA for PCs. The 1571 was also pretty fast with burst mode. I dunno what was the CPU speed with VDC "no badlines" but could be pretty impressive.
I want one, if the access would be standardized with some standard drivers, easy to understand extensions, that could live paralel to the existing ones. ( Would be great to use the 64K foir 320x200x 121 free color like VGA chunky  )
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