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   Impmon to commodorus@nospam.com   
   Re: C64 GS   
   02 Jul 07 00:26:45   
   
   XPost: rec.games.video.classic   
   From: impmon@digi.mon   
      
   On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:25:40 +0200, "Commodorus"   
    wrote:   
      
   >X-No-Archive:yes   
   >   
   >I've noticed some messages about the XE Gamesystem.   
   >   
   >There's a C64 Gamesystem, too. It's quite rare and it   
   >wasn't succesful, but it was released in the late 80s.   
   >   
   >There are a few very good cartridge games for the C64 GS,   
   >including Shadow of the Beast, Myth and Last Ninja 3.   
   >   
   >Better than anything on the ATARI machines. These cartridges   
   >like all other C64 cartridges will also work on C64 computers,   
   >since we didn't have these silly problems with different OS releases.   
   >   
   >Commodorus   
   >   
      
   Unfortunately we do get the silly problem of no keyboard on 64GS.  A   
   very large number of 64 games, probably 95% of them depended on   
   keyboard for many functions including level select and start.  Without   
   keyboard, the 64GS couldn't do anything beyond self playing demos.   
      
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