Re: [stella] Re: 2600's TIA & the TV Boy

[Kevin Horton <khorton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:58 AM 8/20/01 -0400, you wrote:

<TIA thing, snipped>

> But to tell the truth, the project is getting really crowded.  With this many
> people working on it, separately or on a team, it really doesn't seem that
> it's needed any more.  In fact, I don't think any 2600 hardware is needed
> from me any more...many people are gonna write games, and they can all be
> different and entertaining.  But their are only so many circuits to build,
> and limited ways to build each one.  And with the new interest in 2600
> hardware from people who have much more time and money to throw at the
> problem, I just don't see a place for me to exist in the hobby.

Heh, I'm sorry that I thought the TIA would be a neat thing to work 
on.  Frankly, I thought no one was interested in the hardware since I 
rarely if ever see a post about it on this list.  I was looking at doing it 
purely on a learning basis; I want to learn about actual chip design and 
thought this would be a good way to go about this.  Heck, I may not even 
produce ANYTHING concrete about it and end up using the drawings as wall 
tapestries.

Anyways, I would really like to see multiple takes on the same thing, and I 
planned on documenting stuff as I went along on my web page.

The new project idea I had in mind was a highly integrated Bankzilla that 
could use a compact flash card for the ROM images and mapper files.  I 
thought it would be a good candidate for a try at FPGA'izing the TIA at the 
same time to save even more chips/power/space, and to learn something new 
at the same time.

Sorry if ya feel on the gun to produce something; I didn't mean to imply 
that.  I'll still be interested in reading your stuff even if I do manage 
to work something out.


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