>  Sorry to be such a pain in the ASS, but can the person with the C65
 >  please give me some details about it ???? from memory the guy was
 >  showing it at some user groups around melbourne. ???

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

 >  All i know is that its able to display 256 colours (i think) and
 >  has a 8/16bit 6809 CPU in it maybe ??

Close...


What is a C65?  A product that almost made it out the door.  What you're
seeing are "alpha" pilot-production units.  There were only something
like 50 units made, and a dozen or more of these were distributed around
engineering, system developers, etc.  Obviously, they were never meant
to be sold to the public, but...

 CPU CSG65CE02, running at 3.54MHz

 RAM 128K, expansion to 8MB

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

 Video CSG4567 "VIC-III"
   analog RGB with composite sync on each primary,
   separate active-high digital sync,
   composite chroa/luma,
   digital fgnd/bgnd control (genlock)
   all original C64 video modes (40x25 text, 320x200 bitmap)
   new modes (80x25 text, with blink, bold, underline attributes)
   true bitplane graphics (VGA resolution):
     320, 640, 1280 horz. pixels in 8, 4, or 2 planes
     200, 400 vert. pixels, non-interlaced & interlaced
     DAT "display address translator" to access display memory
   standard 16-color C64 palette
   programmable 256-color palette with 16 intensity levels per primary color.

 Audio Stereo SID chips

 Keybd 77 keys, including separate cursor keys, ALT, ESC, etc.

 Disk Built-in 3.5" double-sided, 1MB MFM (1581 format)
  custom 4191 controller with 512 byte buffer and  parallel bus
  external mini-DIN for one A1011-type expansion drive.
  accepts CBM serial drives (1541,1571,1581), fast/slow/burst

 I/O Built-in DMA/blitter
  Built-in 6511-type UART, supports MIDI data rate.
  All C64 ports: parallel, expansion, etc.
  new RAM expansion port, accessible by DMA and video chips.

Ralphey.

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