Posted By
MMS
on 2024-03-03
11:32:37
 |  Re: Cartridge Challenge :: New 3+1 ROM
This is a great project, and also clarified the 100 lines limitations.
I was also shocked to learned this limitation, as the C64 Easyscript, loaded from floppy (took RAM space!) allowed several thousand lines (logically, as it used much more RAM). I am not surprised the testers gave such a low score for a "word processor" can make only short notes.
I agree the potentials are really huge. Especially for the mentioned C16 games. Unfortunately (contrary to VIC-20) the cartridges were rather rare, I think mainly because they did not provide any extra to the "cheap" cassette version. But in the scenario you showed us now, they could release fantastic big games with a lot of screens and story, as you could store all of them in external ROM, but I think it worked in this way on VIC-20, as it had only 4KB RAM).
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