On 26 Apr 2011, at 12:46, Geoff Winkless wrote: > On 26 April 2011 10:55, Chris Pile <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > Eugh... _another_ thing to add to Simon's memory contention list? :)
Yep! A certain someone in the scene considers DMA to be a magic bullet that will solve all SAM's problems, but it'd be fighting for the already limited memory access. > My hardware experience is pretty limited though, so I'm not going to start > contradicting Mr Goodwin. It's possible the reasons were cost-related too, but I'm sure there was a technical angle. Si
