Re: RE: Space Wars

<major havoc plug of the week>

Why use space duel hardware when the Major havoc hardware has many advantages...

        Co-processor already designed in (just needs stuffed)
        A dedicated Sound/IO/High Score Processor.
        Paged ROM space available (Total ROM space 64K)
        Paged Vector ROM space also available (Total??)
        4 Pokey's
        Sparkle Vectors (nice!)
        Color RAM
        Speech Support easily stuffed.
        Roller controller capable.
         Skimpy on logic inputs but I think it has 8-12 of them.

You could even put 6502B's in there, increase the crystal speed and overclock
the beast!! :-)

</major havoc plug of the week>
        

Paul Kahler wrote:
>
> > >I too am wondering why a co-processor is needed. To say "he's doing real"
> > >hard stuff doesn't justify adding a co-processor. Just don't do such an
> > >elaborate collision detection. Here's a suggestion:
> >
> > No offense intended, but you're kind-of missing the point. ;-) Think big
> > picture: We're trying to build a platform that just plugs into a Space
> > Duel/Gravitar that will encourage people to write new games for the system
> > hardware and sell them on little "cartridges" that plug into some slots on
> > the board. Kinda like a Vector Neo-Geo if you will...
>
> No offense taken, and none intended in the following. If you're thinking
> "big picture" then Scenix shouldn't even come to mind. At least drop a
> DSP on there. Or better yet, a power PC of some sort. Anything 32bit
> in the 10s of MHz should have faster math than a Scenix. BTW I hope
> you were at least going to provide a way for the 6502 to flash the
> coprocessor :-)
>
> I like the cart idea and I think those processors are neat, but lets be
> realistic here. I'm not going to modify my Space Duel to add in a 21st
> century 8 bit processor with 128 bytes of RAM to use as a collision
> detector :-) BTW, a fast 16 or 32 bitter could probably emulate the 6502
> and the Cinematronics processor.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
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Received on Thu Feb 3 19:08:45 2000