Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 01:53:31 +0200
Message-ID: <20190514015331.0000155b_at_plea.se>
Den Mon, 13 May 2019 21:21:09 +0200 skrev Maciej Witkowiak
<ytm_at_elysium.pl>:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:28 PM Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se> wrote:
> 
> > > I can't remember any commercial product available to use burst
> > > mode in C64 mode back in the days.
> >
> > Btw, I also can't remember any software able to load a C64 program
> > in C128 mode and then switch to C64 mode and run that software.
> > That would had been possible without any hardware modifications.
> >
> >
> There was an extra ROM for C128 "The Servant" that had this option.
> With just few keystrokes you could do exactly that - fastload a C64
> program in C128 mode and run it immediately. The C64 mode was
> configured to use RAM bank 1 so it was easy to examine it after reset
> using C128 monitor.

Cool! Now I found a reason to try out the Servant. Just have to dig up
my eprom programmer from underneath-behind :)

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