Re: Add your classic gaming or classic computer site to 8bitclassics.com Links!

[anoneds@netscape.net (Ben Yates)]

8-Bit Classics <nospam@8bitclassics.com> wrote in message news:<1infq0dditejo5vpoj2oq6euafbjgl5pgi@4ax.com>...
> Since I deal with more than computers, that wouldn't work either, and
> an .org is supposed to be for a non-profit organization, not
> commercial (.com).  I don't like when sites start using the wrong type
> at the end.
> 
> Anyway, the reason I selected 8bitclassics is because that is what I
> know, and that is what I am focusing on, but I will be adding newer
> systems as time goes on.  Thinking of it, I only have some Atari ST
> software online, but that is about it for 16-Bit.  
> 
> As for the TI, I thought the 4A was 8-Bit?  At least externally, maybe
> internally it was a hybrid 16-Bit system? 
> 

The TI was the first commercially available 16-bit to the consumer.
The 9900 is a 16-bit microprocessor, with separate address and data
bus. 16-bit address bus (MSB is used to determine even or odd byte)
allowing it to address 64k, byte addressable. 16-bit data bus. In the
99/4A, this is muxed to an 8-bit data bus outside the console for use
with 8-bit peripherals (not unlike the first PCs - in this case more
like an 8086 than an 8088 which was 8-bit at the processor
connection.)

The instruction set has 16-bit registers and hardware multiply/divide
(unsigned).

Ben