ncoplin_at_orbeng.com
Date: 2004-07-09 03:00:08
Hi All,
>>Totally for what it's worth, I have this vague recollection from when the
>>SCPU came out that games like Elite which ran too fast at 20MHz ran just
>>great at 4MHz.
>And I would agree with this position. It is not always possible to
>insert delay loops in. Code might be too tight already, and who wants
>to ship multiple versions of the same app, with and without delays
inserted?
>Given the idea of a "reconfigurable computer" and the focus of offering
So perhaps the issue is not the idea that the C1 can slow down, but rather
that the implementation could do with a simple comparator preventing setting
of the register to "dangerous" values - I would have thought this easy with
all that re-configurable logic onboard.
- Nick
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