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		wang_li on Feb 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NES 64 – Commodore 64 Kernal and Basic ROMs Ported... As a Franklin Ace 1000 owner (Apple Clone) I can say that there were no commands for sounds and the graphics were rudimentary, draw a point or draw a line or draw a pretty slow vector shape.

chillingeffect on Feb 17, 2022 [–]

IIUC that's because Franklin cloned the hardware successfully, but couldn't clone the BASIC. But I think you could still run Apple's BASIC from a disk. Do you still have it?

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