Re: [colorforth] About Hardware forth Forth

[Eric Laforest <ecl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:37:42AM +0100, alain thus spake:
> Bonjour,
> The 6502 is a little old.
> ARM processors are more powerfull and 32 bits.

Granted. I'd love to write this system on a contemporary computer.
However, the babel of peripherals would make actually using it an ordeal.

The target for all this are the latter Commodore computers: the C64, C128,
and their floppy drives (which run on a 6502!).

One reason is to create a synthesizer out of multiple, synchronized SID chips,
only available in those machines.

Secondly, the peripherals are fixed and of a simple enough design for a single
person to comprehend, and well documented after 20 years of use.
It's a bit like Latin: a dead language that you know won't change. :)
And the hardware technology is very easy to modify and extend.

And old C64s are cheap. :)

-- 
Eric LaForest
http://pet.dhs.org/~ecl/

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