On 04/22/2016 01:51 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
I like the new types of peripherals but it makes me a little uncomfortable knowing that e.g. in the case of the uIEC-SD for Commodores, the clock speed of the peripheral is 16 to 20 times that of the original host CPU.
Honestly, I can't see the point in modern upgrades except perhaps for temporary use in order to get data to/from original equipment. At the point where people start adding emulated storage, USB interfaces, VGA display hardware etc. it stops being a vintage system and starts being a modern version which just happens to still have a few vintage parts. May as well say screw it and just use an emulator for the whole thing...
Now upgrades within the realm of what would have been possible during a system's lifetime I can get on board with - using period components to implement things such as Ethernet interfaces, accelerators, extra memory etc...
J.
