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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ChuckT on September 01, 2015, 02:46:41 PM

Title: Vulcan 64
Post by: ChuckT on September 01, 2015, 02:46:41 PM: Check out the video. A 6502 chip can do better video than the Amiga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=chACO3WNtg0

Vulcan-74: A 6502 Retro MegaProject

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2015/08/31/vulcan-74-a-6502-retro-megaproject/
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: mingle on September 01, 2015, 03:03:37 PM: This is seriously amazing.

My hat goes off to people like this who come up with these brilliant ideas.

Is “genius” to strong a compliment? I don’t think so…

Cheers,

Mike.
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: ChuckT on September 01, 2015, 03:16:25 PM: I believe they can build that on a grander scale using faster and better chips.
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: Hattig on September 01, 2015, 03:44:09 PM: The possibilities are greatly extended when you have separate memories for sprites and playfields.

80s computers were limited by sharing memory, and a limited amount at that, for reasons of cost and the fact that pins on chips actually cost a lot once you reached a certain number.

There's no reason a 6502C can't drive an amazing graphics subsystem on its own, when the subsystem has no memory or pin limitations to deal with.

However, in case I sound like a sourpuss, this is still a brilliant achievement in so few discrete 74 series chips.
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: yssing on September 01, 2015, 04:20:58 PM: Actually I think genius is the right word!
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: kamelito on September 01, 2015, 07:12:02 PM: Impressive, but no software to play with it. If it sell one day and that a community write software or port 6502 one's that could be fun. But it seems far more powerful than an Amiga how it stack up to a Vampire I don't know.
Kamelito
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: Gulliver on September 01, 2015, 07:46:04 PM: With some hacking this project could potentially become a surprisingly cheap Amiga graphics card.

Anyway, so f$cking great as it is!
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: trekiej on September 01, 2015, 08:22:57 PM: I am hoping the C65 did this.
Title: Re: Vulcan 64
Post by: invent on September 02, 2015, 12:16:15 AM: Interesting Project , also more info http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329 (http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3329)