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Offline Waccoon

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Re: Hacking the C64DTV, it's not your average retro DTV device!
« on: December 29, 2004, 03:13:06 AM »
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Uhhh, I hate to jump on the patrio-wagon here but Baird was throwing television signals across the atlantic years before Farnsworth demonstrated his tube

I thought we were talking about the people who first developed broadcasting standards.  You can't really narrow down such a big invention as TV to just one person, anyway.

Any speculation as to whether the "CPU" in this C64 device is an embedded core from a modern CPU like a MIPS, or a totally custom device?  I would think it's too much trouble to make a new chip from the C64 blueprints, especially of the SID.  We *did* just have a few threads on why it would be practically impossible to remanufacture the OCS / AGA chipsets.

OT:  Oh yeah, I work for the Post Office, now, and I could not *believe* how many QVC boxes we had to ship this holiday season.  I mean, we had six-foot-tall boxes loaded with 'em.  

If you live in New England, they went through my P.O. Annex, and I probably sorted them.  Merry Christmas.  :-D