Re: Could you make a 'new', 'better' computer from the C64 just by reprogramming the PLA?

Now your problem is you have zero time to fetch the color from dram.
Before, when the color was in separete static ram, it could fetch from
dram and static ram at the same time.

So you either need to spend even more money than you saved to keep 40
columns or drop to 20 columns.

On 03/11/2021 21:55, Claudio Sánchez wrote:
> But if the color ram would had been made part of the main ram, it
> wouldn't had needed dram refresh because that is already done by the
> chip.
>