Re: Hardware-based vs software-based emulation

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:07:48 +0100
Message-ID: <1603774.dEgEBB4sXG@rakete>
On Friday 17 February 2017, 18:58:51 Gerrit Heitsch 
<gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
> 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.

of course, i wasn't talking about the datasheet at all :) making something 
that works according to the specs in the datasheet is easy =P

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