Re: Accelerating the CPU!

[jcompton@typhoon.xnet.com (Jason Compton)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
:      C-64 users have a couple of big advantages: They have a very simple 
: machine; and, they do not much care whether or not their 20MHz '816 board 
: will run their old wares.

<snort at both comments>

I'll take your inflammatory remarks in good humor. :)

:     _IF_ we are willing to blow-off running old-][ and GS wares on a GS Super 
: Card, then, a major plug-in upgrade is entirely doable at reasonable cost. 
: 20MHz (and better) speed, 16MB-64MB RAM, improved Sound, vastly improved 
: display, ...  everything falls into place when you go with a fresh new 
: design. 

The 20mhz '816 board actually does a surprisingly GOOD job of running old
software, and that compatibility is of primary concern since there's
really no SuperCPU-only software right now.  

It is true that anything that calls undocumented opcodes will likely fail,
but most applications and a surprisingly high percentage of games work
just fine.  Some don't work quite the way you'd like them to at 20mhz, but
others get a very enjoyable speed increase.  And GEOS has been patched to
run beautifully.

So 64 users aren't just dumb hicks with money to burn.  CMD's done a great
job with the SuperCPU.

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