> Colin has nicely sent me the prices of his surround sound card so that I > can get lovely noises from my SAM, but has anyone in the SAM community > created a graphics board for our lovely beastie? > > I had one of the original graphics boards from MGT (the ones that were a > complete con!) which Simon Cooke now has. Still I've got his technical > manual ;-) What are the chances of producing a graphics board that would > remove the processing from the Z80 and allow for some new funky games to > be produced. Just an idea - that I am sure has been mentioned in the > past.
Maybe adding another Z80 for graphics and a separate video ram would help. Maybe better and easier than making a whole new video card. Or maybe not. > Also what is the ATOM hard disk interface like - why is the disk split > into 800K sections. Why wasn't a proper filesystem created to handle hardd > isk properly? I have asked this for years..... I think it shouldn't be so hard to make a simple but HD-oriented OS. But people who made Atom are probably more hardware gurus than programmers. So that's it. --- Aley
