Re: [stella] Game developers input wanted for 7800 Ram Cart

[Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:25 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> I read the patent.  It made me dizzy.  The easiest thing to understand
> for me was the source code for the "stella 1.3" emulator, files
> "CartDPC.cxx" and "CartDPC.hxx".  Basically it's F8 with three extra
> whiz-bangs; an extra 2K of graphics data, a random number generator,
> and a music generator.  The first two (graphics and random number) are
> simply table lookups, and shouldn't be too hard to do in an FPGA or
> large CPLD.  The music generator I think might be tougher, but I could
> be wrong.

This is definitely worth recreating if it could be used for new games.

The DPC chip is a very powerful coprocessor that Activision would have used 
in other games had the crash not happened.


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