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it would be interesting to see who it compares to a ZIP chip accelerator. 4Mhz 65C02 vs 5Mhz 8086 with buffer transfers etc. I would expect the ZIP chip to slaughter it. Then the 8Mhz or the Rocket Chip at 10mhz.

I couldn't see how an 8080 which is worse than a z80 would speed up floating point math operations. It's not a 8080 but an 8088 and at 5mhz, very different. I would be interesting to know what impact it had on the Apple ][ at large. People like to muse what would have happened to the C128 it if had ...

Programs :
Deluxe Paint V, Brilliance, Pro Motion NG.

Draw all your graphic with palettes and thus make sure you keep you palette in order for all of them. Don't ever let them get converted into 24bit images.

I use this for conversion https://github.com/Optiroc/SuperFamiconv

Yeah the Mocking Board was to improve the Apple ][s audio from being above "PC Speaker". Sadly they are not even compatible with themselves due to multiple models, and are not really that useful except that one game that you can almost convince yourself you are better than the C64 on ;) Well to be f...

how are you swapping between a 6502 and 2A03 ? do you have two sockets set up on the board?

The "Machine Language for the Commodore 64, 128, and Other Commodore Computers by Jim Butterfield" is the book on the subject, however it might be very pricey due to demand. Personally I preferred "Commodore 64 Machine Code by Bruce Smith" published by SHIVA.(however the VIC-20 version is for all in...

Deluxe paint makes it really easy to do it. So for cheap and quick art it's the "go to"

65816 is niche, but its 6502++, so basically take any 6502 course, there are thousands of them. Be it books from the 80s written by Jim Butterfield or modern youtube channels. Find one that works for you. Once you know 6502, you can then put the 65816 into 65816 mode and enjoy the extra benefits. th...

Oziphantom wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:59 am

What is your incept date Ronian53?

AKA how old are you?

DarkKobold wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:03 pm

I always wondered why all "PAL Trash" games looked the same -

Zero Kamikaze Squirrel, Oscar, Fire & Ice, Sink or Swim, Mr. Nutz, Incantation, Zool...

They were mostly collect-a-thons, and all pretty bad. And they had the same art style.

Amiga ports, it was the "en vogue" style at the time.

What is your incept date Ronian53?

Since a Net Yaroze game has to fit in RAM there's not much room for PCM sound. When releasing Xi they just added Red Book audio to fill the CD I guess. The game itself is very small since it was developed entirely on the Net Yaroze and must fit in RAM. I don't know if it won some contest or somethi...

The PS1 can't boot programs from the memory card like the PS2 can (which is exploited by Free MCBOOT). I don't have a Net Yaroze and don't know the details, but it supposedly comes with a dongle device that you use to hook up the computer to the memory card slot with so that you can load your creat...

I would say the N64 is ultimately easier to develop for than the PS1, in some regards. The programmable pipeline stuff is a harder than fixed pipeline, but these days Shaders are common and once you set up a standard code set, not really an issue anymore. The PS1 however has really tight memory limi...

Well, these are dreams, surely the idea of an 65816 running at 10.74mhz never was even contemplated. I spend more time thinking about that DMA at only 2.68 mhz, Could it be fault of the WRAM? (supposedly an WRAM of 3.58mhz could upgrade the DMA at 3.58mhz too, but all of this kind of hypothesis are...