Re: If you were to put a graphics chip on an apple II card...

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

On Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:22:53 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> On Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:29:33 AM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> > I'd like to see some made, if even just porting stuff from the MSX, 
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> > SG-1000 and Colecovision (all, unfortunately, Z80)...
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> From Cybernoid disk image on asimov: (not 4.0 version)
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> So as a little R&D proj, I thought I'd convert Dave Rogers' Spectrum
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> 128 Cybernoid routine (written in 1988).
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> After this, I wrote a python script to do the Z80->6502, and quickly
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> converted Cybernoid-II.
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> Rich

That's why I'm going for a new music format.  I always though the music replayer methodology of using a CPU emulation was kind of BS compared to a pure music format the likes of a mod or similar.  I get why the msx and speccy music emulators use cpu emulation to accomplish the goal, mostly for timing but also because it's easier to rip out a music routine than convert the data to a new format.  But I still don't agree with it because of its lack of portability.

I'm still working on WozTracker, but have a lot of real-life distractions this past week.  Hopefully I'll be able to carve out a good chunk of time to work -more on it this week though.  I have 50% of the backend tracker data structures written for the editor.  The rest of the editor will be built around these so I'm trying to be careful to get everything I need in the first pass rather than go through a more expensive revision process later.

-B