Re: Hardware-based vs software-based emulation

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:58:51 +0100
Message-ID: <1c1e465f-98c8-d296-3475-46c08b125aa1@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 02/17/2017 06:28 PM, groepaz@gmx.net wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2017, 17:21:44 smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
>> On 17/02/2017 11:58, Bo Herrmannsen wrote:
>>> i have also thought what it would require to make a chip that would work
>>> 100% like the original but have more modern outputs.. ie hdmi, or RGB....
>>> you get my drift
>>
>> The hard part is making a chip that works 100% like the original. Once
>> you can output composite, then outputting rgb or hdmi should be easy.
>
> indeed, replacing the video output by whatever you want to use is trivial
> compared to the effort needed to make a proper replica of the video chip :)

It's one thing to make a 100% replica of VIC as it is described in the 
data sheet, but it's something else to make a replica that behaves 100% 
like VIC, especially in the undocumented parts that people use to 
achieve certain effects.

  Gerrit



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