On 7/19/2014 3:42 AM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote: > > I get the strangest ideas while at the public pool doing laps... > > Now that we have the ROM of the 6500/1 in the VC-1520 dumped, > disassembled and analyzed, shouldn't it be 'relatively' easy (*) to > build a 100% compatible replacement using one of the Atmel Atmega with > enough I/O pins? The Atmega16 comes to mind here. 16 KB flash and 1 KB > RAM should be more than enough. The pinout is different, but that > would be a purely mechanical problem. > > (*) for people who know that controller well enough > > Gerrit > > > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list I am sure it's not a huge challenge, but what other cool features should the 1520 have :-) That would seem to be a question worth considering? More chars in the font? Different font? Some more functions like primitives for box, circle, etc.? Dunno, just wondering. -- Jim Brain brain@jbrain.com www.jbrain.com Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-07-21 07:00:03
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