Commander X16

Couple thoughts: 1. Anyone who has been in the retro space for any length of time knows (and anyone who hasn't yet discovered this will find out): There's -100% everyone will be pleased. As I often say, "everyone has their own dream computer, this is David's". So it's Kobayashi Maru. If th...

I suspect the GB reference was perhaps meant to be SNES (which does have a 65816 variant). Regarding 6502 code, you can still run the X16-GS in 6502 mode with the only caveat being the 65C02 specific instructions that were replaced on the 65816. That's already in the current documentation since X16-...

I just did the math. How are we addressing 32MB of RAM on a 24bit address bus? It's in the FAQ Tom linked earlier but in brief: 2MB at $00/$A000 banks will still be available 16MB will be available when in 16-bit mode Some sort of ROM mapping will also be possible. (See Kevin’s notes below.) BASIC ...

If you want a CLI, though it's more Unix-like, I use https://github.com/irmen/cx16shell There's another one being worked on also I think? I'm not aware of anyone making a DOS style shell though. As Tom points out, Monarch OS was a project but I think it hasn't been touched in quite a while. If you w...

Yup! I didn't do it in the above vid but I also tested MIDI clock in at the same time too. The stuff MooingLemur and I did today is even cooler! Hope to share that update fairly soon.

Behold! Here's that demo I mentioned showing all 4 sound options running at the same time: https://youtu.be/jJfnCdBbMi0 Technically I'm not using MIDI out at the same time but most folks that wanna make music for the X16 with samples will probably want to use the wavetable option, which the above sh...

Works on the first try! That's...rare

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u4qxqia76qQ

As in the MIDI 2.0 specification? It's not currently planned at the moment. That isn't to say it wouldn't be if there was a benefit, but since 1.0 is a subset of 2.0, much of the planned implementation would be the same.

Now that those cartridge cards and parts are ordered (that was all stuff on #cartridges on the Discord - that'll be a few weeks as I picked the slow boat option), turning my attention back to DT and MIDI. I decided to just go face first into the multi-chan option for the PSG chans. They can be flipp...

I suspect DOS would be a heavy lift. I wouldn't say impossible because I don't like to "no, but" vs "yes, and" though there's a lot that would need to be written and handled. Virtual memory for instance doesn't exist here, as the X16 is meant to be a baremetal computer. DOS is cl...