Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
|On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:36:35 -0700, Matthew Montchalin
|<mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:
|
|>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
|>|I have a Spartan and it is a stand alone Apple II+ compatible machine.
|>
|>What year did you get it?  How much did it cost you?
|
|I got it as a Christmas present from my brother sometime in the early
|1990s so it didn't cost me anything.  I'm sure he picked it up second
|hand.  He even gave me an extra processor card for it.

I think they were expensive in 1990 as well.  If he was lucky to
have picked it up secondhand, he got an incredible bargain.

|>To this day, I think that magazine reviewers were unnecessarily harsh
|>on the Spartan.  It occupied an interesting place in the history of
|>the Commodore and Apple platforms.
|
|I would have to agree with you there.  A C-64 with a Spartan would
|have been one heck of a set up.  It looks like the Spartan also gave
|your C-64 some extra functionality as well, not just allowing you to
|run Apple II software.

I think the best part ought to have been being able to load Apple
diskettes.  To this day, I don't think there has been much progress
on that front.  Most people nowadays just have to get an Apple II
and then transmit the stuff by modem.

|One of these days I'll have to set up my C-64, Spartan and 1702
|monitor and take some pictures of it.  They do look good together.

That would be very interesting to look at.