CMD SuperCPU - who's still interested?

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Re: CMD SuperCPU - who's still interested?

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banman wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:24 pm Please excuse any unwanted intrusion into this very interesting discussion. This sounds fascinating.

By the way have you seen this project?


https://github.com/frntc/Sidekick64/

Could this thing be of any use?

Just a thought.
Hello,

If the Sidekick will run a 65c02 or 65816 core then yes, it will be useful. Even running a 65c02 at 1Mhz could potentially mean more performant programs *as long as* the extended instructions are used and are more useful to your program than the undocumented instructions on the 6510 (for instance, being able to store zero anywhere, rather than having to LOAD the accumulator, X or Y with zero first saves two bytes and therefore a few cycles).

Thanks for the infos.

Shaun.


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Hi The_Other_Shaun_B,

No worries.

I hope it will lead to something. :D
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Just an update on Sidekick64 cartridge.

Frenetic has made an adapter PCB that allows the Sidekick64 cartridge to interface with a Vic 20 machine. A new hardware layer program is designed to run with the Vic 20. This is called Sidekick20.

He has been able to run a secondary Vic 20 on the Raspberry pi in tandem with the real hardware.
I'm not sure if one would call this emulation or co processing, albeit very interesting .

https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread ... ost1817194

There are accompanying videos in the thread showing it's operation.
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Frenetic has made an adapter PCB that allows DMA up to 16mb.

Interestingly there is some MOS 6510/8500 emulation support. From what I can gather the menu is driven by one of the Rasberry Pi's ARM processors.


https://github.com/frntc/RAD
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