The Final Cartridge 3
The Final Cartridge III , also the Final Cartridge 3 , shortly FC3 was a very popular plug-in module extension for the home computer C64 and Commodore 128 , which was produced by the company Riska BV Home & Personal Computers (Holland). The module offered a quick loading program (such as Turbo Tape ) and a freezer, which enabled the user to stop the computer at any point in the program sequence so that it could later continue running at the same point.
The plug-in module was connected to the expansion port of the respective computer. Externally, two switches (for the "Reset" and "Freeze" functions) and an LED that indicated whether the module was active or inactive were attached to the plug-in module .
One of the interesting functions of the cartridge was the GUI : When the device was switched on (or when the reset and C = keys were pressed at the same time), the screen displayed a graphic WIMP desktop. The graphical user interface was based on the AmigaOS 1.x.
Furthermore, the module expanded the number of basic commands, such as B. RENUMBER, and several utility commands.
The Final Cartridge 3 complements itself very well with an SD2IEC floppy, since the fast loader of the FC3 is retained in file browsers such as the CBM browser or the SD2BRWSE. The F-key commands of the FC3 also facilitate the use of the SD2IEC. So you can combine these hardware with each other perfectly.
BASIC extensions
The following BASIC extensions are available:
- Scroll function within a BASIC listing
- Printer interface, d. H. Use of Centronics printer under BASIC V2
- Start the screen printout (hardcopy) with the key combination CTRL +RETURN
- Window menus
- SYSTEM
- DESKTOP Return to the user interface of the "Final Cartridge 3"
- MONITOR Calling up the monitor program
- KILL MENU Switching off the window menus
- FINAL KILL Switching off the "Final Cartridge 3"
- BASIC (special BASIC extensions)
- AUTO (activate line number specification when programming)
- DEL (deletes line areas e.g.
DEL 10-20) - FIND (search for program code)
- HELP (Lists the BASIC line that caused an error)
- LIST (removal of list protection)
- OLD (restore a deleted BASIC program)
- RENUM (renumbering of BASIC line numbers)
- TYPE (activating direct output from the keyboard to the printer)
- DISK (special disk commands)
- CATALOG / DOS "$ (display of disk contents / directory)
- DAPPEND (loads program (parts) from diskette)
- DOS "(Use of disk commands instead of
OPEN 1,8,15,"N:TEST,ID":CLOSE 1only needs to beDOS"N:TEST,ID"entered.) - DLOAD (loading a program from diskette)
- DSAVE (saving a program on diskette, six times faster than in normal operation)
- DVERIFY
- FUNC KEYS (assignment overview see above)
- The 30 additional BASIC commands
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