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People write games for the TI-99/4A in TI BASIC (or Extended BASIC) that would be too slow to be any fun on the original hardware, but flip on Classic99's Turbo
by bitwize 3y ago
People write games for the TI-99/4A in TI BASIC (or Extended BASIC) that would be too slow to be any fun on the original hardware, but flip on Classic99's Turbo mode and suddenly you have arcade action!
I can see an upgrade like this enabling games, demos, and other software that wouldn't be possible on the stock Apple or Commodore systems.
- ddingus 3y agoIt does not take 100Mhz to do that. A while back I bought a FastChip for my Apple 2e. That delivers a 16Mhz 65C02 or 65C816 (I bought the latter option) The trick to getting superfast Applesoft is to copy it into the card fast RAM. Otherwise, Applesoft is still faster than stock, but main board RAM is still clocked at 1Mhz. Not enough of a boost to really matter. However, once Applesoft is on the card, the situation is reversed! All accesses to main board RAM are 1Mhz, but that is plenty fast to draw a ton of graphics. Applesoft programs run crazy fast when the 16Mhz 6502 has the job.
- leptons 3y agoThere are demos written for the SuperCPU 20mhz accelerator for the C64. There are also demos written for the Ram Expansion Unit. I think there was one recent demo released that runs in an emulator with no throttling so it's something like a 40MHz C64. One interesting demo combines 4 Commodore 64s to run one demo, called "Quad Core" https://youtu.be/B4UBlpTucFc?si=a1irvH7CRYhETnk9 https://youtu.be/B4UBlpTucFc?si=a1irvH7CRYhETnk9
- ddingus 3y agoThe Quad one is neat!