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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd PIA
- Message-ID: <92258.203901AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:39:01 GMT
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- >
- > Isn't this what Chuck Steinman of Dataque was going to do, but with
- >a 65816? This would be a really neat project, if we could get the
- >circuit boards printed up. I have an extra 800xl with all the chips
- >socketed, so it would be really easy to transplant the chips. While you
- >are at it, might as well use a 65802 (65c02 pin-compatible).
- >
- yes..but 1600XL as it was..was not going to be graphics compatible..
- the 130XEC card was though....
-
- > I guess it was economically feasible for Dataque to produce their
- >own next generation XE. (But I do see some sort of market for a <$150
- >home computer, with diskdrive.)
- >
- > Has anybody thought of what could be done if you added a second
- >GTIA? (I read that this is what the 7800 uses for graphics.)
- >
- I though they used a MARIA chip...
-
- > What is the cost to have circuit boards made nowadays?
- >
- >> ALSO I PRESS FOR EVERYONE OF YOU TO BUG THE heck OUT OF ATARI TO
- >> RELEASE THEIR DOCUMENTED SOURCE CODE FOR THE XL ROM's. ALL 500+ pages of
- >it!
- >
- > I don't understand why they haven't released a lot of things now
- >that they don't support the 8-bits anymore. Interesting note though, in
- >the latest Atari Explorer Online, they said they sold the remaining
- >8-bits, 2600, and 7800 overseas and in South America.
-
- They still sell the 130xe as I understand overseas...Why hasnt BEST
- Electronics gotten a hold of the source code..hmmm?
-