20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
11:55 a.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Jim Leonard may have mentioned these words:
You forgot the SuperCPU for the C64/128. This made the computer run
20 times faster and you still have video. It also gave you 16MB of
available memory...
Cheers,
Bryan
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Maybe in your circles, certainly not mine. With most of the machines I used
the system clock was tied to the main color burst freq. crystal,
"overclocking" meant "no video" and when was the last time you'd
seen a
paper tape reader or teletypewriter hooked up to a CoCo3? ;-)
Today's computers (beyond overclocking...
pffft.... that's not hacking)
just aren't that hackable.
You're conveniently forgetting that most of the hacking done on 8-bitters
was to overclock them.