Posted By
indi
on 2010-01-05
07:29:03
|  Re: Just to chat: what is, in your opinion, the greater lack of Plus4? (if any...)
Well, I guess we'll never really know... I suspect it would increase the price only a little. (£20 or so) But who knows for sure.
Well, extra RAM is common. I was gonna do an XeO3 one for the Plus4 with MMC card slot, and put everything on a SD card - making loading a "blip". It'd also be cheaper than ROM chips 
But I like the idea of putting a PIC or ATMEGA on there to do parallel computing / calculations :P
It could actually do sprite rotations in parallel as well I guess - course on a Plus4, you can't take over the BUS, but if the RAM is on card, you can "program" around it... Actually... you could put a BLITTER on card, and have the screen in the extra RAM, and then you could do whatever you want! A full bitmap screen with ATMEGA blitter...Ooo... cool
(oh.. and SID chip)
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