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Oh .. just a few video arcade games you might have heard of .. Defender, Joust .. Juno First .. and so on .. so, actually quite a few games machines use the 680
by fit2rule 13y ago
Oh .. just a few video arcade games you might have heard of .. Defender, Joust .. Juno First .. and so on .. so, actually quite a few games machines use the 6809 cpu ..
- teddyh 13y agoThose are not computers.
- fit2rule 13y agoSir, I beg to differ. I personally know of two individuals who are regularly reprogramming their 6809-based arcade boards, freely, with new software. So, I urge you to reconsider your opinion; I believe it may be wholly incorrect.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoThe article says this was done on "a 1980’s-era PC" with a 6809 processor. teddyh was clearly wondering which PC (Tandy CoCo 3, it turns out) and which game, not asking for a random list of arcade games that happened to use the 6809. I'm not sure why he's getting downvotes when you're the one being obtuse.
- teddyh 13y agoBy that metric, an abacus is a computer. This is not a workable definition for the discussion at hand.
- fit2rule 13y agoSorry, but wut? We're talking about systems that utilize the 6809 processor. This CPU is a general-purpose processor, used in quite many video game machines. What does an abacus have to do with anything?
- teddyh 13y agoI notice you called them “games machines” and not “home computers” or even “computers”. It seem to me that you knew very well what I was talking about, but choose to be obtuse.
- fit2rule 13y agoI grew up in an era when in fact the most potent computing power I had access to, as a hacker/programmer, required 20c. Alas, I realize not everyone thinks the way I do, but I consider among the worlds most functional 'computing experiences' occurred during the Arcade era, where, indeed, one could wonder at the .. sheer .. computing power .. being used to render sprites. With 256 colors. So, at the risk of perhaps moving the goal-posts, let me just say that while the 6809 might've been a 'games console cpu', at the time, it was also used in a few .. relatively interesting .. micro's. Anyone returning to that era, in their own way, contributes what they can. In my case, I consider the still-functioning Joust and Defender machines in my neighbourhood, at the very least, accessible through a repository ..
- eric_the_read 13y agoNot general-purpose computers, no, but how were they not computers?
- MindTwister 13y agoComputer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
- teddyh 13y agoComputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer