Quote Originally Posted by Soviet Conscript View Post
hmmm, so theres almost no benifit of useing a 128 over a 64 if your primarily in it for games..
Correct!

Quote Originally Posted by Soviet Conscript View Post
what about the newer disk drive? right now i'm useing a 1541-II but if you pair the 128 with a 1570 or 1571 will you get faster load times with C64 games? is it any faster then useing a c64 fast load cart? (which i'm useing now)
In C64 mode, the 1570/1571 default to 1541 speed so will be no faster. There are some utilities that let you load a C64 program while in 128 mode (thus getting higher speed) then flip into C64 mode to run, but they're limited to single-load programs so not very useful. I've never seen benchmarks, but I think the 128/1571 combo is a little faster than an Epyx fastload cart.

Quote Originally Posted by Soviet Conscript View Post
and while i'm talking about fast load carts, when i use this cart in a c64 i get a slightly diffrent load screen thats says "viper". now when i use it in the 128 i get a standard c64 loading screen.
That's odd, since any cart that contains C64 autoboot code should automatically flip the 128 into C64 mode. Not familiar with this "viper" though.

Quote Originally Posted by Soviet Conscript View Post
i found a wierd quark with my monitor which it didn't do before. when i initially turn everything on i get no screen regardless of if power on the monitor or 128 first. no matter how long i wait i don't get an image. i have to then turn the 128 off and then on again to get video output. wierd.
No idea on that one. The 80col key on the 128 is in the up position, right?