Re: TransWarpGS Clone

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

> @Rob: The first edition will be a straight up clone of the TWGS, so the current ceiling on speed will apply. Don't forget that the '816 as currently available could never come close to reaching 40MHz. Its possible that when I take the next steps in doing some reengineering, if and only if we can develop an '816 softcore for an FPGA (no opensource ones are currently available, although WDC does offer an RTL '816) that the current ceiling on speed could be surpassed. That is way in the realm of uncertainty though. I'm not even going to be thinking of things like that until the first version is out the door.


Although, my comment may have seemed more like a joke.  I would just like to add, that I do need one that is quite fast.  Greater than 16 Mhz.  8 - 12 Mhz is ok for speeding up the finder and is 2 to 4 times faster than the IIGS fast speed of 2.8 Mhz.  Games, obviously do not need an accelerator, nor word processing.  But the one aspect that requires the high acceleration even on modern computers, is, obviously graphics.  I have reverse engineered Dream Graphics, lsw compression, to compress the IIGS SHR screen.  And I have written a driver to let Prodos 8 use an entire 8 GB flash drive.  A fairly fast accelerator would definitely be in the works for me.

Now if I could only convince one of you hardware geniuses to build me a graphics card that can display at least 640x400 and support thousands of colors.  And plug into a modern monitor.  Then I will be all set.