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Post by bjonte on May 20, 2020 15:38:53 GMT
What’s the connection between CX16 and Apple?
I agree it is unlikely at best to see major development on these new platforms. It’s such an undertaking to make serious games for these platforms. Even the mighty C64 doesn’t get more than a handful of serious games per year.
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Post by oziphantom on May 20, 2020 17:06:07 GMT
It's the Apple II fans in the group trying to push it to Apple II features. The internal expansions slots for example. Internal slots and a Commodore KERNAL don't really mix( the 128 KERNAL has provisions that could be changed to support them, however the CX16 is trying to be a VIC-20). The KERNAL assumes everything is external when talking with something not built in. At least they have stopped asking to save the 2 bytes at the front of a file, and seems to have grasped it saves memory and with a 2GB SD card not worth worrying about.
That is the other problem, there are not many SNES games because well you need a Team of say 5 pros full time for a year to make a SNES game at SNES spec. The CX16 won't push SNES spec, but it still is a lot more work than a C64 game. Having 8Mhz though does mean you can just write the sloppiest code and not notice, the 65C02 does remove some annoyances and make code flow easier. But the memory banking doesn't make life easy either.
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Post by mirkosoft on May 21, 2020 1:23:37 GMT
I began my computing with Czechoslovak ZX SPectrum clone and I like ZX Spectrum. When I see by CSpect emulator what it can, it is beutiful. To M65: It is in development very, very long time. I think its fate is near sure - another C64 machine... sadly - looks true.
Miro
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Post by robertb on May 22, 2020 5:10:28 GMT
The Mega65 is nice, but I fear it will be too expensive and doesn't have a market... Tell that to the nearly 5,000 people who are following its progress on Facebook.
Truly, Robert Bernardo
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Post by oziphantom on May 22, 2020 5:54:36 GMT
and when it comes out for $500 how many of those 5,000 people are going to actually buy one?
VS
The currently 17,800 of the CX16. Once it is done, LGR, Perri, Technomon etc will start to do videos of it. It then has the expensive first machine version, which is $300 but then they have plans to get to a phase 3 lo cost version which is where the market can grow. How many of the 5,000 jump on the CX16 train?
The benefit the Mega65 has, is it is deemed a Commodore and hence is allowed to stay in the commodore areas on Lemon64, while the CX16 gets shunned to chit chat. If CSDB picks up Mega65 it then has a shot.
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Post by robertb on May 23, 2020 5:42:17 GMT
and when it comes out for $500 how many of those 5,000 people are going to actually buy one? I'll buy it! (Just like I said back in the late 1980's when the C65 was rumored to be coming out.) That... and an AmigaOne 1222. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - www.dickestel.com/fcug.htmSouthern California Commodore & Amiga Network - www.portcommodore.com/sccanP.S. When I was in Australia in March, I tried to meet up with Mega65 developer Paul Gardner-Stephens, but I only got as far as Adelaide, and he was farther up north in the Outback on a retreat.
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Post by wsoft on Jul 7, 2020 11:34:57 GMT
The OP (Zippy Zapp) is on to something. I'll make it a point to check up on this project from time to time. It would be interesting to see someone else's vision of how that machine could be if a little newer tech was added.
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Post by wsoft on Jul 7, 2020 15:21:42 GMT
@ Robert B.
I had an Amiga 500 and later a 600HD version of the Amiga. The 600 didn't have a full keyboard and that made it incompatible with some of the more popular games. Other than that the small 20Mb HDD filled up rather quickly.
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Post by wsoft on Jul 9, 2020 16:05:51 GMT
I began my Commodore Computing hobby on April 27th, 1987. I was living in Germany at the time and I had a subscription to the "C64'er" Magazine. That was back in the day but it was a good mag, even if you had to study a foreign language eh? In those days it was learn German or die heh heh
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Post by robertb on Jul 10, 2020 2:26:53 GMT
I had an Amiga 500 and later a 600HD version of the Amiga. The 600 didn't have a full keyboard and that made it incompatible with some of the more popular games. Other than that the small 20Mb HDD filled up rather quickly. With a CF-to-IDE adapter and a 2 gig CF card, my A600 doesn't fill up quickly. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - www.dickestel.com/fcug.htmSouthern California Commodore & Amiga Network - www.portcommodore.com/sccan
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