yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) (01/17/91)
It seems to me all (Most all) the Emulators I've seen are totally software. (With the exception of a bridgeboard) How about a "Hardware" "thinggie" to put 6502's ect... and whatnots on. How about a c64 Bridgeboard!.. For the 500!.. I'd buy one! How about a Sega-Adaptor.... How about a Nintendo ..... How about a ??? How about a 1571 "program" to allow you to use your amiga as a Drive for your 64. (Ie ya plug ya 64 into the amiga, and use it's hard drive) Well Just mindless babbling... I want a 100% speed c64 tho on my amiga 500! . -- yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York ---------------------------------------------- Macintosh... Proof that a Person can use a Computer all day and still not know ANYTHING about computers.
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (01/18/91)
In article <yorkw.664126959@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: > >It seems to me all (Most all) the Emulators I've seen are >totally software. (With the exception of a bridgeboard) > >How about a "Hardware" "thinggie" to put 6502's ect... >and whatnots on. > >How about a c64 Bridgeboard!.. For the 500!.. I'd buy one! >How about a Sega-Adaptor.... >How about a Nintendo ..... >How about a ??? Point is cost, as mostly. If you decide to make a "little" board with a 6502 on it, then you also must put all the special peripheral chips of the emulated machine on that board. As far as I know this is always the hard (and slow) part of an emulation. To emulate a sheer processor is not such a hard thing, but to watch for certain addresses that are peripheral registers and then react accordingly, that takes real effort. So in the end your "thinggie" would carry about 70 % of the hardware of the emulated device. That's normally not worth the money. >How about a 1571 "program" to allow you to use your amiga as a >Drive for your 64. (Ie ya plug ya 64 into the amiga, and use it's >hard drive) ^^^^^^^^^^ Now that sounds nice! Regarding all those VERY few and expensive hard disks for the C64, this could indeed turn out as a rather effective solution! You know there are already handler programs existant for the Amiga to access the serial bus, and the hardware interface is also well-known. The only thing one would have to adapt is that the software (as far as I know) wants to act as the bus controller, like the C64. So this would have to be changed to act as a passive bus device. Sounds really like a neat little project. Someone volunteering? -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk