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  • Re: C256 Foenix(Commodore Rebirth)

    From Shaun Bebbington@3:770/3 to Tejekion on Thursday, August 30, 2018 09:10:53
    On Sunday, 8 July 2018 16:30:54 UTC+1, Tejekion wrote:
    Has anyone been following the progress of the C256 Foenix. It's being created by Stefany Allaire, and is aiming to be what should have been the successor
    to
    the C128. Specwise it seems to be beefier than a stock A1200, and have the graphics capability similar to, but better than the SNES(256 Colors from a pallet of 16M, which a Picasso 96 like program could take advantage of, I
    would
    think.) I'm TRYING to learn basic programming for it's 65816 CPU(Which is
    the
    same as in the C64 Super CPU), but programming seems to be a lot harder than
    it
    used to be back in the day when I was typing those already made programs in the magazines.

    I've never heard of this. Do you have a link?
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  • From Janne Johansson@2:221/6 to Shaun Bebbington on Thursday, August 30, 2018 19:31:12
    On 2018-08-30 08:10, Shaun Bebbington : Tejekion wrote:
    Has anyone been following the progress of the C256 Foenix. It's being

    I've never heard of this. Do you have a link?

    https://www.c256foenix.com/ seems to be it.
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  • From Janne Johansson@2:221/6 to Janne Johansson on Thursday, August 30, 2018 19:36:32
    On 2018-08-30 18:31, Janne Johansson : Shaun Bebbington wrote:
    On 2018-08-30 08:10, Shaun Bebbington : Tejekion wrote:
    Has anyone been following the progress of the C256 Foenix. It's being

    I've never heard of this. Do you have a link?

    https://www.c256foenix.com/ seems to be it.

    Seems far from finished, I don't really like statements like this:

    "It has been a while since I had a little bit of time to think...
    Finally got around to put down a version of what the Memory map of the
    system will be. This is a beginning, obviously things will probably move
    around for different reasons."

    Doing PCBs before you know how the stuff will map into memory seems a
    slight bit backwards.
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  • From Brian Seeley@3:770/3 to Shaun Bebbington on Thursday, August 30, 2018 09:28:22
    On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 12:10:54 PM UTC-4, Shaun Bebbington wrote:
    On Sunday, 8 July 2018 16:30:54 UTC+1, Tejekion wrote:
    Has anyone been following the progress of the C256 Foenix. It's being
    created
    by Stefany Allaire, and is aiming to be what should have been the successor
    to
    the C128. Specwise it seems to be beefier than a stock A1200, and have the graphics capability similar to, but better than the SNES(256 Colors from a pallet of 16M, which a Picasso 96 like program could take advantage of, I
    would
    think.) I'm TRYING to learn basic programming for it's 65816 CPU(Which is
    the
    same as in the C64 Super CPU), but programming seems to be a lot harder
    than it
    used to be back in the day when I was typing those already made programs
    in
    the magazines.

    I've never heard of this. Do you have a link?

    Found this on google...

    https://www.c256foenix.com/
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  • From cbmeeks@3:770/3 to Janne Johansson on Monday, September 10, 2018 06:27:25
    On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 12:41:32 PM UTC-4, Janne Johansson wrote:

    Doing PCBs before you know how the stuff will map into memory seems a
    slight bit backwards.

    Maybe, but not always. I'm designing my own computer as well (8-bit, 65C02 based). It will use a CPLD to control the memory mapping. This basically means I can change the memory mapping anytime I like. In fact, I plan on supporting different memory
    maps to run some legacy software from different machines.
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  • From the.seeleys2015@gmail.com@3:770/3 to Tejekion on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 13:24:50
    On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 11:30:54 AM UTC-4, Tejekion wrote:
    Has anyone been following the progress of the C256 Foenix. It's being created by Stefany Allaire, and is aiming to be what should have been the successor
    to
    the C128. Specwise it seems to be beefier than a stock A1200, and have the graphics capability similar to, but better than the SNES(256 Colors from a pallet of 16M, which a Picasso 96 like program could take advantage of, I
    would
    think.) I'm TRYING to learn basic programming for it's 65816 CPU(Which is
    the
    same as in the C64 Super CPU), but programming seems to be a lot harder than
    it
    used to be back in the day when I was typing those already made programs in the magazines.
    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)