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Commodore 64 C64 Power Cartridge!
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Commodore 64 C64 Power Cartridge!
Fungerer som den skal. For den som husker dette, settes inne bak i C64 eller 128 og så kan man nytte fordelene som f.e. raskere lading.
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The KCS Power Cartridge comes as a neat red cartridge with a single, white button. It offers a fairly wide set of features and does have a small amount of built-in RAM to aid the freezer.
Compared to the other two cartridges, it occupies a sort of middle ground: not quite as user friendly as the Final Cartridge III, not quite as game/programmer oriented as the Action Replay. However, it's quite functional (some might say powerful ;)) in what it does offer.
Apart from a disk and tape turbo option and a backup option (which is not quite as stable as the Action Replay backup), the cartridge offers plenty of new BASIC commands, a feature complete monitor and a freezer. The freezer of the Power Cartridge lacks the advanced features of the Action Replay but is still quite useful - it lets you use the monitor, make a backup, continue back into whatever program is running or reset the computer. Notably, it misses the 'game oriented' features of the Action Replay - sprite collisions cannot be switched, nor does it have a 'POKE finder'. It also fails to continue frozen programs more often than the Action Replay does, which is primarily caused by the lower amount of on-board RAM and the need to compress/decompress any program frozen.
The primary draw of the Power Cartridge is its bigger feature set in terms of new BASIC commands, which contains some very usefull stuff and the no-nonsense approach of it all: the cartridge only has one button and presents itself using a nice and easy to use menu that gets you to all the basic features. I especially like the INFO command you get in BASIC which lists all the commands the cartridge has added. The rest of the BASIC toolkit is also really useful. For instance, it includes a TRACE command that lets you run a BASIC program and check what it does line by line. This kind of stuff might seem useless today, but back then a lot of people programmed in BASIC and such features were really neat to have.
The built in monitor is likewise powerful and has all the usual features, though it does have an annoying beep whenever you make an error. As far as I've been able to find, you can't deactivate this beep either.
A number of my friends owned a Power Cartridge back in the day, so I've seen it in use plenty of times. In fact, seeing the Power Cartridge in use was one of the reasons I decided I needed a utility cartridge myself, though I didn't end up getting a Power Cartridge in the end. I didn't actually get one myself until many years later and have, sadly, not used it much (if at all). Mostly because it came in my possession so late in the game, that I was already using the 1541 Ultimate II as my standard cartridge by then.
However, having taken a renewed look at it, I can see that it would've been a very useful device to have owned back in the day
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Sist endret: 8.6.2024, 17:44 ・ FINN-kode: 327669009