Re: Z180 vs Z380 (was Re: ACE 002 and ADVRAM...? New MSX?)

[Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba]

Patriek Lesparre wrote:
> On a final note, I'd like to qoute from a message by Pablo Vasques:
> >Although Leonard Oliveira will convert my old
> >MSX1 to MSX2 and you can expect some GOOD things
> >coming from this. I'm not allowed to say more. :]
> So upgrading to a new system hightens his productivity? At least he
> promises good things.

Let me explain that: of course, upgrading my
system wouldn't affect my productivity "per se".
However, I intend to use some MSX2-only tools,
and unfortunately I'm very skeptic about their
programmers' doing MSX1 versions only for me.
Of course, they can't realize that may be more
people like me in the scene.

I'm not a programmer, and of course I can't
push my personal software shortage to any
program; my dream tool doesn't exist and I
honestly can't say if a programmer devoted
time, sweat and sleep to a project like mine
(considering I'd hardly help him) it would
be rewarding to him. Maybe I'll never know
if there's more people like me, who dream
of a music composing tool with support to
PSG, SCC, MSX-Music, MSX-Audio, Moonsound
and some other hypothetical music hardware...

And don't say that's not feasible. RicBit
told me it's feasible, and if he say so... :)

As for my promises, well... I may be late, but
I'll not fail, following my own tradition. :))

> I'm in the same position, although slightly different, and I think others
> are as well. I have here a turboR, Video9000, MoonSound 640kB, but no
> reaaaaallly great processor power. When I get a Z380 (and I WILL get a Z380
> for sure) I will make a Z380 GEM, and I will probably make lots of other
> stuff! Coz Z380 is cool!

We must be honest right now and tell what we
want: something for myself or something for
the masses. Unfortunately I never talked to
Carchano or Padial about their Zx80 projects;
despite I'm not the hardware guy, I think both
projects have very interesting features. How-
ever, I'm inclined to think ADVRAM would have
a much bigger impact right now, because it's
really a Columbus' Egg and it's good! `:))))
Moreover, it's not expensive and it's rela-
tively simple, hardware-wise -- sounds simpler
to me than Carchano and Padial's Zx80 projects.

> *yawn* I'm tired, I'm probably talking nonsense again, and nobody probably
> cares about these messages... I think we're about done talking anyway,
> since we seem to agree on many things. The only difference is: I want a new
> MSX, you want a faster MSX.

My dream: we could have an unified development
environment which would able us to write an app
for Z80, Z180 and Z380 with minimal changes in
sourcecodes. This way, software developers could
write cross-compatible apps more easily... Of
course, I wouldn't dive very deep into this
questions because of hardware implications... :]

[]s,
Parn
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