On my "ever increasing" list of things to investigate is modifying and Atari Lynx hand held. It already has a 16MHz 65C02 processor and LCD, with mapping up to 512+kb of ROM. Also the should be fast enough to run a semi-compatible emulator-on-a-cart as the CPU is near-enough and only the other I/O has to be simulated with the Mickey and Suzie chips. - Nick -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Pope [mailto:bpope@wordstock.com] Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2001 10:12 PM To: cbm-hackers@dot.tml.hut.fi Subject: Re: Doorst: rechten commodore > > Hallo Dave, > > > Add a board and other parts and we're talking maybe, > > what, $150-$200 per unit? > > The real C= enthusiast has several C64's as spare. And in my case, $150 or > more for a commercial product does not appeal to me. Certainly if I already > have about twenty original ones. > In 1992 I could buy brandnew C64's PLUS datarecorder in Poland for less then > $50. I don't see why a one-IC C64 should cost the triple of it. > I believe a big chunk of the cost would come from a color LCD display panel. P.S. Some of the specs of the soon-to-come-out Gameboy Advance: SCREEN - Reflective Non-Backlit TFT Color LCD SCREEN SIZE - 40.8mm X 61.2mm (2.9" Diagonal) RESOLUTION - 240 X 160 Pixels DISPLAY - 65,535 Possible; 32,768 bit map mode; 511 character mod CPU - 16 Mhz 32-bit RISC-CPU (ARM7) + 8bit (Z80) CISC-CPU MEMORY - 32 Kbyte WRAM + 96 Kbyte VRAM (in CPU) MEMORY - 256 Kbyte WRAM (external of CPU) SOUND - Built-in Speaker (Mono), Headphone (Stereo) LINK PLAY - 4 Players GBA, 2 Players GB/GBC POWER - 2 "AA" Batteries (15-20 Hours) SIZE - 82mm length X 144.5mm width X 24.5mm thick WEIGHT - About 140g CART SIZE - 34.5mm X 60mm (32 MB Max) BUTTONS - 4 + Start & Select EFFECTS - Scaling, Rotation, and Transparency Effects SPRITES - 256 per line, 4096 max PRICE - $95.00 US RELEASE - March 21, 2001 (Japan), July 2001 (US) Official Name: GAME BOY ADVANCE - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi. PLEASE TAKE NOTE: The contents of this email (including any attachments) may be privileged and confidential. Any unauthorised use of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please advise us immediately (you can contact us by telephone on +61 8 9441 2311 by reverse charge) and then permanently delete this email together with any attachments. We appreciate your co-operation. Whilst Orbital endeavours to take reasonable care to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from viruses or other defects, Orbital does not represent or warrant that such is explicitly the case (C) 2000: Orbital Engine Company (Australia) PTY LTD and its affiliates - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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