Re: I am working on a GS accelerator, can you help?

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sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms) wrote:

>ericlob@cris.com (ericlob) wrote:
>
>> As long as we're pipe-dreaming, I'd also drop the 65816 and go with some
>> cheap but speedy RISC chip and write a 65816 emulator for it. I'm not sure
>> how much faster it would be (if any) than a 20MHz '816 but any "native"
>> apps written for it would be much faster.
>
>And put a VGA controller on it, so that all video access can be done at
>top speed - and you get better graphics to boot... at which point I ask,
>why not just go buy an iMac and run Bernie?

Because "it can be done."  ;-)

Don't you watch Star Trek?

But really, Bernie is cool, but it would also be great to see a new
accelerator for the IIGS.

If someone is asking for info to design one using the existing
accelerators as a template, the best way would still be to use a
20Mhz 65C816, like the Commodore computers' CMD SuperCPU
64 and SuperCPU 128.  They could easily say "why not run
Commodore emulators on a Pentium or Celeron" but that
would be missing the point, wouldn't it?