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A day later...

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This genuinely put a huge smile on my face when I seen it this morning! Simply amazing!

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wow that was fast

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On 10/13/2022 at 6:01 PM, Strider said:




A day later...



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This genuinely put a huge smile on my face when I seen it this morning! Simply amazing!



wow that was quick

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I think at least one of those boards should go to [link removed].  This way he can resume incorporating the Commander X16 into his lessons on YouTube.

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Very very happy and excited for this. As much as I'd like to have one of those (homelessness sucks!), I'd much rather have all the developers that have put a lot of time in - especially those in tool and kernel development - have theirs first. 

If there's any way I can help, I'd love to.

I would like to ask for one thing, though. An easy way to assign banks of space and then reference them. LOCATE is a powerful tool, and so is DOS. What I'd absolutely love is control over sections of managed memory. You have the memory - you have all the memory! - but the tools to use it efficiently would be a great help.

For sure - this has me turning my eye to Retrotrek again. Really can't wait to see efficient and easy methods of file IO to memory without smashing my head into memory segments.

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On 10/13/2022 at 12:21 PM, Kalvan said:




I think at least one of those boards should go to [link removed].  This way he can resume incorporating the Commander X16 into his lessons on YouTube.



While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I'm not comfortable with folks using the forum to lobby for development systems. Thanks for understanding. 

 

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I really want one of the first batch too.  Maybe if it is over subscribed 100 or 200 could be made.  The reason I want one is that I am VERY interested in hardware development which, obviously, I can't do with the emulator.  I have several ideas already and it would be really good to get at least one design ready for the actual launch.  I am more than happy to build in myself if that's easier for the team.  I was a component level service engineer with Acorn 8 bit and 32 bit machines back in the late 80s and early 90s.  I have created several hardware and software products for those and also for the CPC range where I wrote 2 ROMs whilst I was still at school.

Pleeeeease.........

 

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On 10/16/2022 at 5:19 PM, Cowasaki said:




I really want one of the first batch too.  Maybe if it is over subscribed 100 or 200 could be made.  The reason I want one is that I am VERY interested in hardware development which, obviously, I can't do with the emulator.  I have several ideas already and it would be really good to get at least one design ready for the actual launch.  I am more than happy to build in myself if that's easier for the team.  I was a component level service engineer with Acorn 8 bit and 32 bit machines back in the late 80s and early 90s.  I have created several hardware and software products for those and also for the CPC range where I wrote 2 ROMs whilst I was still at school.



Pleeeeease.........



Sounds like you should address this to the design team.

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On 10/16/2022 at 2:19 PM, Cowasaki said:




I really want one of the first batch too.  



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Pleeeeease.........



We all do, but no one on the forum has any pull to get you one of those first 50. 

 

 

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On 10/16/2022 at 6:43 PM, TomXP411 said:




We all do, but no one on the forum has any pull to get you one of those first 50.



I'm pretty sure I can't afford a Gen1 board, so I'm on the sidelines in this one.

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