On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:On Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:29:33 AM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:I'd like to see some made, if even just porting stuff from the MSX, SG-1000 and Colecovision (all, unfortunately, Z80)...I was thinking the same. I wonder if Any of the z80 cards would be able to access the 9918 through the apple II bus at any reasonable speed? Or maybe the 9918 would be better off on a card with a Z80?Dunno. But a SoftCard is only 5/7 the speed of any of these systems, iirc. (That said, I think the 6502 can keep up if the game is recoded to take advantage of it.)I actually was thinking a few days ago how it would be nice to implement a hybrid video/sound card using the TMS-9918 and the AY-8910 (Mockingboard and MSX sound chip). A system with a 9918 card, a Mockingboard and a joystick would be real nice... with a Zip Chip, a V9938, an AY-8910, a joystick, a Liron and a 1 MB RAM expander, you'd about have the king of 8-bitters.
So you'd sort of have an MSX computer. Michael