Re: [stella] Formats (64K Flat Model??)

Subject: Re: [stella] Formats (64K Flat Model??)
From: Robin Harbron <macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 16:07:02 -0400
Erik Mooney wrote:
> This basically makes the 6507 just a vehicle to the TIA, and gets us all
> the computing power, RAM, and ROM we can buy for game calculations.  Not
> that I actually expect anyone to do this... the timing issues would be
> incredibly difficult... but designing theoretical computer systems is much
> more fun than designing the real things :)

That was a cool read - just for your info - this is exactly
what CMD (http://www.cmdweb.com/) did in making the SuperCPU -
it's basically a C64 cartridge that contains a 20Mhz 65816
processor (mine has 16MB on board) - it takes over the computer,
pretty much, just using the C64 host for it's I/O, video and
sound functions (the keyboard is handy too ;).  It's been out
for about 2 years now - completely amazing.  And they just
finished the SCPU128 - a C128 version of the same, which was
supposedly an absolute nightmare to make, because of all
the timing issues.  Take a look at it!
--
Robin Harbron    macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxx
   http://www.tbaytel.net/macbeth

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