Re: JACE to support //gs

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 8:22:15 AM UTC-4, Benoit0123 wrote:
> BLuRry wrote:
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> > The next version of Jace will be completely revamped for //gs support.  It
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> > will feature 100% Mark Twain feature compatibility.  It will also have
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> > uthernet, virtual ImageWriter PDF output and the ability to support native
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> > SCSI prodos-formatted disks.  Native Disk-II support will be added and
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> > will
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> > require a custom parallel port cable to connect to the Disk II, much like
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> > the X1541 cable used by commodore users.
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> > 
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> > Details pending after I've had a lot more to drink...
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> > -B
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> >
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> Well a sensible starting point would be to emulate a 65802/816 CPU on an
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> Apple //e...
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> And many past 1st April fools ended (i.e. have materialized) in the real
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> world... ;-).
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> 
> Benoît

Yes, absolutely.  Current the Jace RAM class supports both 8 and 16 bit operations -- and that extends all the way through the event handler subsystem used for I/O and cheats.  Though the current memory model doesn't understand an address space greater than 64K, it's not impossible to switch that later on.

-B