----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #40 Questions and Answers Preface---- Below are the answer to the Commodore Trivia Contest Edition noted above. I will wait a few days for the answers to circulate and any errors to surface and then score the entries. The newest edition of trivia should already be available. I encourage you to enter it. 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If you intend to use this information, please wait a few days after the posting date to allow for major errors to be corrected. Please mail any new questions for upcoming trivia (with answers) to: trivia-submit@mail.jbrain.com ----Commodore Trivia Contest Edition #40 Questions and Answers (BEGIN)---- Q $270) Many people lamented the demise of QuantumLink, known alternately as Q-Link or the 'Q'. When did QLink oficially close? A $270) November 1, 1994 Q $271) Name the vaporware Virtual Reality area that was to become a part of QLink, but was never finished/released in its original form. A $271) Habitat, a role playing game designed by LucasArts (part of the computing talent of George Lucus of Star Wars fame). Q $272) The QLink area mentioned in Q $271 was eventually scaled back and introduced on QLink as what area? A $272) Club Caribe, basically a chat system. Q $273) The Commodore Punter Protocol was devised by Mr. Punter. What is his first name? A $273) Steve. Incidentally, the Punter protocol lives on in the IBM world, where Steve has a Punter BBS with echoes (like FIDO). Q $274) What kind of product is the Skyles Flash! unit? (hint: most folks don't need one.) A $274) Serial to IEEE-488 converter. It's used to attach IEEE-488 peripherals (used on the PET line of computers) to a CBM serial port. Q $275) On early revisions of the 6502, the SO pin on the IC was labeled CPS. What does CPS stand for? A $275) Chuck Peddle Special.... Named after 6502 designer Chuck Peddle. Q $276) What Commodore system was referred to as the 'Z' Machine? A $276) The C900 Prototype UNIX System. Commodore never successfully marketed the machine, which included a Zilog Z8000 CPU (hence the name) Q $277) (True or False). Commodore 64 compatibility was designed into the C128 from the beginning. A $277) True. Lead Designer Bil Herd, fed up after working on the ill fated Plus/4, spouted off to senior management about the lack of compatibility killing the project. His comments were heeded, and he took on the C128 with the mandate that it be compatible with the 64. Q $278) The 8563 VDC found in the C128 was originally designed for what CBM machine? A $278) The C900 machine mentioned in $276. Q $279) What was the "Theme Song" of the C128 developers? A $279) The live version of "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel. Q $27A) Who developed the C128 version of CP/M? A $27A) Von Ertwine. Q $27B) How many Paddles can one connect to a Commodore 8-bit machine? A $27B) Technically, 4 paddles can be connected, although only 2 can be read at any instant in time. Q $27C) Does the B128 have joystick ports? A $27C) No. Q $27D) Commodore file type 2 is PRG, and type 3 is USR. What is Commodore file type 0? A $27D) DEL or Deleted. Very rarely used. Q $27E) What is Commodore file type 1? A $27E) The very useful SEQ file type. Q $27F) The original VIC-20 systems had how many pins on the video port? A $27F) 5 pins. After the 64 was introduced, newer version had 8 pins, the same as on the 64. The information in this between the lines marked by (BEGIN) and (END) is copyright (c)1997 by Jim Brain. Provided that the information between the (BEGIN) and (END) lines is not changed except to correct typographical errors, the so marked copyrighted information may be reproduced in its entirety on other networks or in other mediums. For more information about this contest or using these questions, please contact the Commodore Trivia Administrator. 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