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is this guy aware of the Mega65 Project ( http://mega65.org/ http://mega65.org/ ) which actually already has working machines, a case and is on the brink to beg

by _pRwn_ 8y ago

is this guy aware of the Mega65 Project ( http://mega65.org/ http://mega65.org/ ) which actually already has working machines, a case and is on the brink to begin mass production?

f_allwein 8y ago
> this guy girl, actually.
- TaylorAlexander 8y ago
  Always bothers me how common it is for people to gender everything male.
  - C256_Stef 8y ago
    Maybe because they don't pay attention! ;)
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    English doesn't have a third-person gender-neutral pronoun and traditionally uses "he" when the gender is unknown, so it isn't really surprising that people, at least English speaking people, assume "male" until they know otherwise.
    - TaylorAlexander 8y ago
      You’re describing a historical norm, but it’s one I feel is rooted in a historical bias. Men ran the world and defined the word “man” to mean a person of any gender, but that was always an act by men. I’d like to see this kind of bias removed from our language, and it takes individual choice to make that so.
    - rusk 8y ago
      "They" and "Their" are perfectly acceptable as gender neutral pronouns. A stickler might object, but also bear in mind that in English there's no "proper" second person plural ...
  - rusk 8y ago
    It's an easy trap to fall into. I'm looking around my office here and I can count about 20 men and 5 women. When I was in university the ratio far more male dominated. It's unfortunate that such an imbalance can make things uncomfortable for women (e.g. oafishly gendering things as male) in the industry sometimes.
beagle3 8y ago
Girl. Also, two other Commodore remakes/redos, C64DTV[0] and C-One[1] were done by non-guy Jeri Ellsworth[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-One [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth
C256_Stef 8y ago
Yes, I am actually a girl! ;o) Yes, I am aware of the Mega65. Like I wrote before. 2 different computer with 2 different approaches... I don't know why people come back with this comment... Like one 8bit music creator will stop creating music because someone else is doing it too? What's up with that?
- ttldude 8y ago
  Great to see a follow-up to our Gigatron computer! I wonder what you will use for video generation in the C256, because the greatness in 8-bit gaming came from these chips. So you'ld have to differentiate there or run the danger of becoming yet another retro knock-off (well, the merits of compatibility should not be underestimated. Most of the effort will be in software otherwise). For the Gigatron it was ok to have limited video effects, because its insanely low chip count was its primary objective: so we have no tiling, no hardware sprites and no color indirection. But we do have indirection per scanline and you can do neat things with that, such as the bending road in the Racer game. One thought is to design your own video circuit and put it in an FPGA. ASIC is also an option if you go with a 0.18um/0.25um foundry (X-FAB). You can also do it with discrete logic, but it will become big. There is the Vulcan-74 guy doing TTL (well, CMOS) video circuits: http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329 http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329 and http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8734 http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.ph... (video: https://youtu.be/EIghk1BUG98 https://youtu.be/EIghk1BUG98) Another idea is to do a hardware version of the PICO-8 platform: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php For sound you should really consider the awesome SAA1099 chip.
  - walkingolof 8y ago
    >For sound you should really consider the awesome SAA1099 chip. Yea !! As far as I know only the SAM Coupé used it, and nobody really pushed it on that platform.
- walkingolof 8y ago
  > I don't know why people come back with this comment... Like one 8bit music creator will stop creating music because someone else is doing it too? What's up with that? Yea, I have a similar project, I've heard this so many times...

by _pRwn_ 8y ago

is this guy aware of the Mega65 Project ( http://mega65.org/ http://mega65.org/ ) which actually already has working machines, a case and is on the brink to begin mass production?

f_allwein 8y ago

> this guy girl, actually.

TaylorAlexander 8y ago
Always bothers me how common it is for people to gender everything male.
- C256_Stef 8y ago
  Maybe because they don't pay attention! ;)
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  English doesn't have a third-person gender-neutral pronoun and traditionally uses "he" when the gender is unknown, so it isn't really surprising that people, at least English speaking people, assume "male" until they know otherwise.
  - TaylorAlexander 8y ago
    You’re describing a historical norm, but it’s one I feel is rooted in a historical bias. Men ran the world and defined the word “man” to mean a person of any gender, but that was always an act by men. I’d like to see this kind of bias removed from our language, and it takes individual choice to make that so.
  - rusk 8y ago
    "They" and "Their" are perfectly acceptable as gender neutral pronouns. A stickler might object, but also bear in mind that in English there's no "proper" second person plural ...
- rusk 8y ago
  It's an easy trap to fall into. I'm looking around my office here and I can count about 20 men and 5 women. When I was in university the ratio far more male dominated. It's unfortunate that such an imbalance can make things uncomfortable for women (e.g. oafishly gendering things as male) in the industry sometimes.

beagle3 8y ago

Girl. Also, two other Commodore remakes/redos, C64DTV[0] and C-One[1] were done by non-guy Jeri Ellsworth[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-One [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

C256_Stef 8y ago

Yes, I am actually a girl! ;o) Yes, I am aware of the Mega65. Like I wrote before. 2 different computer with 2 different approaches... I don't know why people come back with this comment... Like one 8bit music creator will stop creating music because someone else is doing it too? What's up with that?

ttldude 8y ago
Great to see a follow-up to our Gigatron computer! I wonder what you will use for video generation in the C256, because the greatness in 8-bit gaming came from these chips. So you'ld have to differentiate there or run the danger of becoming yet another retro knock-off (well, the merits of compatibility should not be underestimated. Most of the effort will be in software otherwise). For the Gigatron it was ok to have limited video effects, because its insanely low chip count was its primary objective: so we have no tiling, no hardware sprites and no color indirection. But we do have indirection per scanline and you can do neat things with that, such as the bending road in the Racer game. One thought is to design your own video circuit and put it in an FPGA. ASIC is also an option if you go with a 0.18um/0.25um foundry (X-FAB). You can also do it with discrete logic, but it will become big. There is the Vulcan-74 guy doing TTL (well, CMOS) video circuits: http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329 http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329 and http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8734 http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.ph... (video: https://youtu.be/EIghk1BUG98 https://youtu.be/EIghk1BUG98) Another idea is to do a hardware version of the PICO-8 platform: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php For sound you should really consider the awesome SAA1099 chip.
- walkingolof 8y ago
  >For sound you should really consider the awesome SAA1099 chip. Yea !! As far as I know only the SAM Coupé used it, and nobody really pushed it on that platform.
walkingolof 8y ago
> I don't know why people come back with this comment... Like one 8bit music creator will stop creating music because someone else is doing it too? What's up with that? Yea, I have a similar project, I've heard this so many times...