A BBC on steroid :)
A BBC on steroid :)
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skype pseudo : kamelitoloveless
skype pseudo : kamelitoloveless
good link.
I found this most amusing...
"As to whether he found the task of designing the electronics tricky, he added: "Not especially difficult, the worst point is where the 6502 is sitting looking at the ARM expecting something to happen and the ARM is sitting looking back at the 6502 expecting something to happen and they just deadlock."
Not sure why you'd want to use this hardware. To me it goes back to the old argument about when does a Computer become something other than its original.
For example, if the Oric was expanded with a similar coprocessor, would it still be an Oric even if it was backward compatable?
If everyone wants a more powerful Oric then perhaps they should choose the C-ONE all purpose machine?
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/
I found this most amusing...
"As to whether he found the task of designing the electronics tricky, he added: "Not especially difficult, the worst point is where the 6502 is sitting looking at the ARM expecting something to happen and the ARM is sitting looking back at the 6502 expecting something to happen and they just deadlock."
Not sure why you'd want to use this hardware. To me it goes back to the old argument about when does a Computer become something other than its original.
For example, if the Oric was expanded with a similar coprocessor, would it still be an Oric even if it was backward compatable?
If everyone wants a more powerful Oric then perhaps they should choose the C-ONE all purpose machine?
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/
I read on the BBC mailing list that one has to very careful when updating the firmware on that co-processor solution. If you make a single mistake, you may fry both the ARM and the computer motherboard.
You know of the C64 SuperCPU, and Ruud has experimented with fitting a 65816 to VIC-20, mainly to get a larger addressing range since increasing speed is more tricky in respect of supporting chips.
http://www.baltissen.org/htm/hardware.htm
You know of the C64 SuperCPU, and Ruud has experimented with fitting a 65816 to VIC-20, mainly to get a larger addressing range since increasing speed is more tricky in respect of supporting chips.
http://www.baltissen.org/htm/hardware.htm
Anders Carlsson