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  7. Posted · Edited by willbilly

    Sooo....

    You don't know this, but I'm actually a Texas Instruments fanboy, pretty much.  But not of the TI-99/4a, although I like it.  I'm a fan of the TI Professional Computer and its derivatives.  I'm also a fan of their failed computer projects, and among them is the TMS340x0 graphics processor line.  The creator (Karl Guttag) wanted it to be the GPU/CPU for a video game console, but that never happened.  A friend of the family named Raj worked at TI Bedford when it was being developed and ended up being the local guru for the architecture.  It was eventually used in some arcade machines like Hard Drivin'.

    There's a little known demo from 1987 on youtube for that particular graphics processor showing a game.  It's called Captain Pixel, and it was written by Michael Denio.  I think this was the precursor to Captain Comic.

    Here's a link: 

     

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    On 6/23/2020 at 9:41 PM, Loafer said:

    I have to admit considering the console race was a three way affair during the early 80's, it would be nice to see FPGA support for all 3.   I admit I'm very much a fan of expanding the ability of the Phoenix, but I'm also A-OK with what we've gotten so far.  If the current cores were the final updates to the console (and I'm sure it's not), I'd still be a happy camper.

    I'd very much like to see an Intellivision FPGA system that fits the system specs for the proposed Intellivision IV.

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    1 hour ago, insertclevernamehere said:

    Competitive against what?  There is no other competition that does the same thing other than the piecemeal, far more expensive, diy alternative as laid out by Bmack36.  Sounds like he doesn't want a Ferrari until it's gold plated and the same price as a Fiat.

    Whoa whoa whoa...

    I know it's just an analogy but gold plating a Ferrari is just plain immoral.  I have to be able to eat tonight you know.

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    A 30 dollar game in 1987 would cost 64 now due to inflation. It's amazing to me with the limited run that the dev's were able to offer this, a professionally built game for what would've been a fair price for an Atari game back then, not to mention the exemplary production values in it.

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  22. Posted · Edited by willbilly

    I would figure any new-build hardware may as well be an improvement, since both avenues are backwards-compatible (the 99/8 and the Geneve) - which is why I lean towards the Geneve when doing hypotheticals, it being the biggest improvement.

     

    I figure priced well enough it might engender more homebrew for the original Geneves as well. If you really wanted to jumpstart homebrew development, you could also release a devkit/emulator disguised as a "fantasy" console, like the Pico-8.

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    I've put some thought into it. I know that there's quite a few custom chips in the 99/8 to contend with. There is also the option to produce new build Myarc boards, possibly even putting the myarc architecture into new cases.

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