On Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:25:42 +0000 (GMT), Nigel J Kettlewell said: > OK, so how about putting in your own RAM as well as a new CPU? Memory's > cheap, despite what SAMCo et al used to charge for it. That way, surely you > could stop the CPU caring what the ASIC says about RAM?
This is what Simon proposed some time ago (that is, adding a souped up CPU and a chunk of memory, neither of which the ASIC knows anything about, and some kind of linkage which allows the new CPU to write to the Sam's memory if it wants (which it has to do in order to display a picture)). imc
