25 Oct
2012
25 Oct
'12
8:03 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM, <barythrin at gmail.com> wrote:
Bad programming techniques aside, I hadn't
previously heard of this pocket computer. So its a propeller development board? Is it
really emulating a computer or just enough to run a basic interpreter?
Sounds neat (similar to pi) other than ending up with all the huge peripherals again.
It has 8 cores. 1 core runs basic (a tokenized basic). 1 core is
assigned to emulating the SID chip. It even has filters. It was worth
it just for that for me. Another core is emulating the video subsystem
etc. The vga supports 64 colors, and that is done by resistor ladders.
The propeller has a ton of pins, so that's not too hard.
As Jeff put it: "Buying a PMC is a little like buying a snap together
car model then discovering later it's actually an RC car. It's kind
of our secret project that we know you'll discover it later and likely
get hooked like us."
I'll be adding another 32KB and the micro SD card reader this weekend.
Fran?ois
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