Re: All this talk of a new GS...

[Jonas Bevren <jbevren@burninghorizon.com>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Frank Carney wrote:

> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:29:57 -0700
> From: Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Subject: Re: All this talk of a new GS...
> 
> Does anyone know how the Transwarp accelerators work?
> I get the idea that there is a microkernel that runs and does fetching
> of instructions into the cache then also has to provide a system clock
> to the IIgs and other housekeeping signals.  Am I off the mark here?  If
> it is easier to build a 65816 accelerator with the existing 20Mhz chips
> then this might be the way to go.  Any thoughts?

It might be more feasible to do this.  However, these 20mhz chips dont
exist. =)  My 20mhz (from factory) accelerator for my C-64 uses a 14mhz
WD65c816.  It's overclocked from the start.

I'm unaware of the transwarp's exact methodology, but I believe you're
close.

-Jonas