On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Michael Black wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:Actually, I'd been thinking of how I could design a "neovintage" computer, and put concepts of various computers into a blender. I figured for a CPU I'd use a 65C02, for video 6847, for audio AY-8910. As far as sound goes that meant the hardware would basically be a Mockingboard mapped to a different address. >:PGet the synthesizer IC used in the IIGS, that's so much fancier than the 8910.
And rarer. Only a few keyboards and the GS used it. The AY was used on the MSX, Atari ST (in a variant) and some versions of the Spectrum, plus other systems - it got around.
Heck - the video chip I was plugging into the virtual machine was, more or less, the one used in the Tandy Color Computer, the Laser 210, the Acorn Atom, and a couple oddball machines from Brazil.
As for the BASIC? It's not actual 80s code but it's the same basic (lol) dialect seen on pretty much every home computer apart from Acorn's and Atari's offerings.
-uso.