Re: [colorforth] About Hardware forth Forth

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric, unless you already have the SID chips in your hot little hands, you might
want to reconsider that plan.

I looked not too long ago.  SIDs are starting to get mighty thin on the ground.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Laforest" <ecl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] About Hardware forth Forth


> 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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