The XMOS chip doesn't address external memory, it just has I/O ports. That makes it nearly worthless for emulation purposes.
And isn't I/O the whole purpose of the XMOS chips?
That's not true. There are already a few microcontroller based C64 emulations. The specs for this chip with its 4 cores could easily emulate the C64 if you added some external RAM.
But if you can't then it's pointless, use the XMOS for I/O in some other product where it might make sense, and and use the Turbo Chameleon 64 for emulation and other stuff!
Read about it here, or at the Syntiac PagesI think this product is über-cool, use it as a super cartridge in a real C64 to add tons of new features or use it as a stand-alone computer! When using at as stand-alone, you can also load different cores to it, like spectrum and
even Amiga, as shown in
this video!
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