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Re: Wonder if we could get BASIC on this

Subject: Re: Wonder if we could get BASIC on this
From: Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@sfks.se>
Date: 1 Jun 2006 01:57:29 +0200
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"madcrow" <madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com> writes:

> Or my personal theory could be correct and Commodore put it's text
> buffer at $0400 deliberately to make Apple II stuff easier to port to
> C64.

But don't Apple II and C64 use different character encodings when
representing text and graphics directly in video matrix? If so, it
nullifies the simplification to port text mode applications.

-- 
Anders Carlsson

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