Re: jeri's board - memory

From: Robin Harbron (macbeth_at_psw.nu)
Date: 2001-03-13 04:22:30

Nate Dannenberg wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather she forget the idea of system accelleration (i.e.
> SCPU competition) and focus on *video* acelleration.  Make the CPU,
> whatever she uses, an acellerator/video-co-processor.  Let the user's
> software send commands to the card to be executed by the card's CPU, for
> drawing graphics.

Now you're making a lot more sense :)

This whole "debate" seems to all revolve around our individual
perspectives on what we want and need.

The hacker/tinkerer in me loves the idea of a new, fun toy to play
with - so, yeah, the more goodies, the better.

But the SCPU/Wheels/Wave user in me needs only one thing - better
graphics.  I want to pay Jeri some money for a card that I can
plug into my Commodore, and continue using all the same programs
I have been using all along, but now on a VGA monitor.  Then I
want people (like Maurice) to make special "SuperVIC" versions of
their programs to take advantage of the new resolutions.
-- 
Robin Harbron   macbeth@psw.nu
http://www.tbaytel.net/macbeth
      http://www.psw.nu/
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