I was thumbing through an old mag from 1988 when I spotted this :
"I have just found out that a third C64 emulator is nearly finished, it will be shown around the major hardware companies soon. Called "Card128!" this item is aimed fairly & squarely at Amiga 500 owners who have no memory expansion whatsoever - it plugs under the machine (where an addition memory card is normally installed).
Sporting a Z80 & 6512 CPU, this machine emulates a C64 and C128 with "as near as dammit" software compatibility. There is a port for the 1512 disk drive, the drive controller software is reportedly inside the Amiga.
Naturally this is pure gossip, but rumour has it that Card128! works like MS-DOS on the Amiga 2000, ie it has a window on th Workbench that can act as a task under Intuition! If this is the case, then transferring files from one machine to another should be a cinch".
Questions:
1) was this ever released ?
2) What's a 1512 ?
3) A 6512 was a 6502 with an external clock - surely this couldn't emulate the 8502 as it was only a 1MHz chip ?
1) Even if they never got it fully working, or did but never got it to market, that would be an interesting prototype to take a look at, wouldn't it? (Providing it still exists, or ever existed in the first place.) Too bad no company name was given in the article.
2) I suspect they meant 1541, but had 12 stuck on the brain after typing 6512. :)
3) According to these datasheets (http://www.datasheetarchive.com/search.php?t=0&q=r6512&manystr=&sub.x=0&sub.y=0), there were a number of 6512 packages that supported 2Mhz.
Quote from: adminI was thumbing through an old mag from 1988 when I spotted this : [...]
Was it the April issue?
WTE
Quote from: wteQuote from: adminI was thumbing through an old mag from 1988 when I spotted this : [...]
Was it the April issue?
WTE
Nope - YC March 88 actually.
Google has nothing on this thing.
Lance
Quote from: admin[...] Nope - YC March 88 actually. [...]
March ... is really near to April :oskyldig:
WTE
True... but like many other magazines, I imagine the March issue probably came out in February. :)
BTW, was this some sort of rumors/predictions column? And who wrote it? Maybe we can track down the column author...
Quote from: nikonikoBTW, was this some sort of rumors/predictions column? And who wrote it? Maybe we can track down the column author...
"Amiga Gossip" - but the author is uncredited.
Lance
If I remember right... Sheldon Leemon, probably, if we're talking Amiga World. John Foust if Amazing Computing.
Quote from: airshipIf I remember right... Sheldon Leemon, probably, if we're talking Amiga World. John Foust if Amazing Computing.
"Your Commodore" actually.
Quote from: Blacklord on January 03, 2008, 05:36 PM
Sporting a Z80 & 6512 CPU, this machine emulates a C64 and C128 with "as near as dammit" software compatibility. There
near as dammit in 88 is probably not as good as you would hope for.
I can't remember the names right now, but weren't there were a couple of C64 emulators released during that time? Were they hardware or software based? Were either of them particularly good?
Quote from: Michael Hart on January 16, 2008, 04:30 AM
I can't remember the names right now, but weren't there were a couple of C64 emulators released during that time? Were they hardware or software based? Were either of them particularly good?
I used the A64 package on my A1000, wasn't too bad, plus it allowed you to connect a 1541 directly to the a1000.
Lance