[torontocbm] Great products for your Commodore!
- From: Andrew Wiskow <drewbrasil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:53:33 -0300 (ART)
Hello everyone!
I just wanted to let all of you know about some great
products that I just got from Charles of 8-Bit
Designs!
The first, and by far the best of all, is the "User
Port Commander". I believe this was called a "4-in-1
Plus" by the previous owner of 8-Bit Designs, but it's
now been renamed. This is a great little gadget that,
quite frankly, no Commodore owner should be without!
It connects to your User Port (obviously), and has a
parallel port to connect an IBM-style parallel
printer, a system/serial bus reset switch, a printer
reset switch, a toggle switch to change between BASIC
7.0 mode on a C128 and GeoCable compatibility mode,
and a +5V DC power-tap. It's fully GeoCable
compatible, and even comes with a disk full of
GeoCable printer drivers for GEOS/Wheels. The reset
button will reset the computer without resetting your
serial devices on C64 rev. 3 kernal and higher, all
C64c's, and C128's. On C64's with rev. 2 kernal and
lower, it will reset both the computer and serial
devices.
The second thing is a handy little device called "The
Bus Reset". This plugs into any available serial
port, and has a button on the end of a cable.
Pressing this button on a C64 with rev. 2 kernal and
lower, and VIC-20's, will reset both the computer and
serial devices. On a C64 with rev. 3 kernal and
higher, all C64c's, C128's, 16's, and Plus/4's, this
will reset your serial devices without resetting your
computer. So on the later 64c's and 128's, this
little device makes a great partner with the User Port
Commander, as you can use one to reset only the
computer, and the other to reset only your serial
devices, as the need may arise.
Finally, the last thing is called the "Bus-Y Port
Splitter". This plugs into any available serial port,
and it's a Y-cable... So basically, you can plug two
serial devices into a single serial port. I use this
plugged into the serial port on my C64, then plug my
Bus Reset swtich into one side and my disk drives into
the other side, so I can keep the Bus Reset switch
close to the keyboard. You can also use this if you
have a device, such as a printer, which has only one
serial port, and you want to add another device onto
your serial chain, like perhaps an XE1541 or another
such cable to connect your drives to a PC.
Charles also got fresh cable in to make new X1541,
XE1541, and XM1541 cables. I already have an XE1541
cable of my own, so I didn't need one of those, but
maybe you do! Oh, and he still has one or two C128's
with 64K Video RAM upgrades installed available.
Anyway, I just wanted to pass this information on to
all of you, and let you all know that 8-Bit Designs is
still in business, and Charles is producing some
quality products. It's nice to know that there are
still people out there who are actively supporting the
Commodore community, unlike people "whose name I shall
not speak"... ;-)
If any of you are interested in checking out 8-Bit
Designs products, you can find the web page at
http://www.8bitprodserv.spaces.live.com ... To order
any of 8-Bit Design's products for yourself, just
e-mail Charles at shifty_butch@xxxxxxxxxxxx He's a
very friendly guy, and he won't do you wrong! :-)
Take care!
-Andrew
Cottonwood BBS
(951)242-3593
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