Mmmm, not sure I would have like hardware scrolling to be honest. It would
probably
have meant a glut of scrolling marioesque platform games. Which - for me - is
a whole
lot less desirable than infinite ball demos!
Some sort of blitter to chuck large blocks of data around at high speed would
have been
a *very* nice addition. That 24k screen really is too much for the old Z80 to
cope with!
Oh - and I'll take Salt-n-Vinegar please! :-)
Chris...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Winkless" <[email protected]>
To: "sam-users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.
For me the real mistake, though, was the lack of capability to set the
display address counter for instant free hardware scrolling (and for not
much electronics, unless I'm missing something) - even the BBC Micro had
that in 1982.
Apologies, I'm hijacking the thread again. Erm, Hula-hoops: beef or
salt-n-vinegar?
G
