Comments on Retro Replay cartridge

Collected by CreaMD

Author of software – Andreas Rust (Countzero) – speaks

Although the hardware will be available in a few days, there will be more time passing by until the software is at the stage I want it to be. Mainly work has to be done on loaders, tass and sprite-char-editor, but there are tons of tweaks which still need implementation.

Another drawback: the RR will handle the C128 the following way: when turning on or resetting, a C128 will be taken to 128 mode unless you don't hold cbm pressed. The RR software will check for a pressed run/stop key to determine wether to go fastload or not. But, there will be a hardware patch published aswell, which allows the followoing behaviour then: pressing the 128 reset takes you to 128 mode, pressing the carts reset, will take you to 64 mode. I rather wanted this in the first place, but we somehow became late on integrating it into the hardware.

This is an answer of Countzero on my adtional questions. I expected the software for this cartridge to be worked on, it's already stressed in specifications. Still I would be interested to know how much of the productivity tools of original AR are working. Stay tuned for more. (CreaMD)

RETRO REPLAY SHIPPING IN USA (found at alt.c64 newsgroups)

Jeri Ellsworth will be a Retro Replay distributor here in North America. For pricing and/or reserving a cartridge, contact Jeri at cm_easy@yahoo.com

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group