Commander X16

The good news is that even though little work has been done on testing the IEC functionality, on the X16 side it is purely a software issue.  So in theory the various fast loader techniques can all be supported. But yes, since the SD2IEC doesn’t really support running custom code it is the more lim...

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This would probably partially work on the X16 with the tricky area being the banked RAM and the zero page mapped Banking registers.  If it can be set to externally access $0000 and $0001 as external IO in addition to the main IO range, plus the entire banked range then it would work, but that’s thr...

Well a lot of this is why David put out polls. See if people are expecting a fully assembled unit we don’t have the manpower or logistics. If we assemble them stateside we don’t have the manpower and if we have to assemble them in China there are logistics problems. But if it’s a DIY kit then that ...

In Bruce’s defense, he is very engaged, so he is a fairly reliable source. 

As one of the official team member I will say first. David has not thrown his hands up at all and if that’s how your are interpreted it, that means only that you concluded that first and are only hearing what you already believe and not what he said. Secondly David is really not that directly invol...

Yes and no. Using 256 color mode is unlikely unless your resolution was really low or you figured out how to do it in tile mode. In reality you’d probably drop the color depth and resolution.


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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentcommentid="13495" data-ipsquote-username="Stefan" data-cite="Stefan" data-ipsquote-userid="780" data-ipsquote-timestamp="1629983490"><div> I also looked briefly at the code that handles SD card communication (dos/fat32/sdcard.s).<br>...

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Wavicle" data-cite="Wavicle" data-ipsquote-timestamp="1629342382"><div> I think they are going to have a lot of difficulty pulling off 8MHz, even exploiting early address bus stabilization, if the parts shown in the videos are cor...