Re: Avatar

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague) writes:
: 
: IMO the 65816 is a very capable processor.  Consider some of the amazing
: programs which have been written the the plain vanilla Apple II.  Then,
: not slipping into the "but you just GOTTA have a 100 MHz clock-doubled
: chip to do ANYTHING!" state of mind, think of what you could do with a
: 10 MHz 65816.  Then think of what you could do with a TI graphics
: processor and other goodies added on.

I agreed. Just imagine Avatar as a 10 MHz GS without the silly 1 MHz
limitation, plus a graphics coprocessor, plus a disk coprocessor will do.

: A secondary benefit is that you avoid both Intel and Motorola and
: all the silliness that goes with them; the Avatar will not immediately
: be PC-ized or Mac-ized and subsumed by those worlds.  It's also worth
: noting that with the success of the Super Nintendo, there are a lot
: of good 65816 programmers out there.

That might make porting 65816 games from Super Nintendo a much easier task.
If Out of This World can be ported to GS, I don't see why other games can't
be ported to the *much* faster Avatar.

And 65816 has to be there to make it a Super IIGS, instead of emulating a GS
on a 486 or whatever.

: --
: James Hague   
: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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