Posted By
indi
on 2010-01-05
05:02:44
|  Re: Just to chat: what is, in your opinion, the greater lack of Plus4? (if any...)
@Ninja: Nah... wouldn't have increased it "that" much... And the small increase in cost would have been by far negated with the extra sales they would have gotten from a machine that was better than the C64....easily.
The idea of a card that did H/W multiplies/divides (or whatever) would be pretty cool...The SNES had something like this; a couple of registers that when you plug in values, it took a couple of cycles and then you could read back the result. It was well cool....
It's an interesting idea that any game "cart" could add extra hardware (wouldn't have to be much these days) and that would also have effectively stopped piracy on it - course back then, no one copied carts anyway....)
I'd love to try and do an internal addon that allowed "sprites" on the Plus4.... Remove the TED and plug it into a small daughterboard, then take the signal from it and "overlay" (or "mix" in) sprites - that would be awesome! 
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