Re: A85: new 85 hardware...

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Re: A85: new 85 hardware...


On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Jason Blakeley wrote:
> My question is how much potential do you think the z80 has? In the age 
> of 64-bit and 128-bit Pentium processors that clock at 400mHz, how many 
> z80 programmers would ever be satisfied with with the quality of 
> programs they could write for an 8-bit, 6mHz calc? I always thought that 
> the reason people programmed calcs in the first place was because it was 
> open territory. It wasn't dominated by DOS, Windows, or Unix. It seemed 
> kind of like when the first 8088 or 8086's PC's were made. There was no 
> one making software for it at first. But even PC companies and users 
> moved on to faster processors because they realized that there was only 
> so much they could do with a 8086. Their larger, more complicated, and 
> more entertaining programs required more processing power and more 
> memory to run them. I just think its gotten to the point where we've 
> maxxed out the calc and we're searching for something to do with it 
> because nothing more powerful has come out.

But when I look at the software situation I see everyone using a shell
with an inferior relocator that wastes space.  Instead of writting or just
using the better relocator that's already been written the solution is
make an expander for more memory.
The way I see it most programmers don't even use what's already there, or
just don't use it effectively.  Maybe it's because everyone thinks it's
easier to add more memory than to write programs that use less.

The only game that, in my opinion, maxed ot the z80 was Daedulus, and the
games I've seen lately don't even come close to it's complexity.

-Humberto Yeverino Jr.

"I kick ass for the Lord."

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