>  Firstly thanx a million m8, i shall pass this info on.

You're more than welcome.

 >  RA> Correct, and he will hopefully be showing it next Tuesday (the 6th) at
 >  RA> the Doncaster C64 user group.

 >  Cool, an address would have been nice. 8-)

Sorry, it's the scout hall in Nicole Street, North Blackburn.

 >  I heard the figure was a little higher ..a couple of hundred .
 > (100-200) no big deal all the same.

The head of CBM Germany thought as many as 1000, possibly.

 >  RA>  CPU CSG65CE02, running at 3.54MHz

 >  I take this is still a pure 8bit chip then, unlike the 6809's
 >  or does it have 16bit on chip registers ? and an 8bit data bus

8 bit registers to the best of my knowledge.

 >  Nice clock speed for a machine with a chr map display but.

:)

 >  RA>  RAM 128K, expansion to 8MB

 >  8MB Paged of course ??

Guess so.

 >  RA>  ROM 128K, including C65 mode (v10.0), C64 (v2.2) mode, & DOS

 >  So it has some type of C64 fall back ??

Yup, about 80% compatible with a 64.

 >  Did they update the hardware sprites ?? kill off multi colour
 > and introduce
 >  a real planar system ?.. are 256 coloured sprites possible ??

Dunno.  There was no manual with the system, and we've only just discovered
a working manual exists and are waiting for a copy.

 >  RA>  Audio Stereo SID chips

 >  3 channels ?? samples ?? or just chip effects ?

Again, dunno.

 >  Do ya think it might have taken off ?? if ever brought to mass
 > production.

The sceners I showed it to in Adelaide (who have gone Amiga) went wild over
it, since it's sort of a cross between a 64 and amiga.  So I guess it would
have been reasonably popular!  :)

 >  Do C= still own the CHIP sets/roms etc ?

I expect so, although moves are afoot to get the rights released.

 >  What do you have that runs on it ?? has anybody worked out the
 > hardware registers yet ??

Not much, unfortunately.  People are slowly getting info on it.

R.

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