New Retro Computer

Started by Steve Elliott, July 02, 2020, 10:03:13

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Steve Elliott

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MikeHart

NICE. but holy mole, that size of the motherboard for the CX16 is huge.

Steve Elliott

Yes I don't know what the 8-bit guy is thinking with his 'competing product'.
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MikeHart

#3
Adding to that, that maximite 2 looks nice. Wish it had support for usb controller and hdmi.

Steve Elliott

#4
True, it does.  I don't know why they went with Wii Nunchuk controllers (up to 3 are supported) instead of USB or even an Atari-style joystick port.  With the I/O pins available maybe somebody will produce a joystick 'add-on' port, or the USB Keyboard could maybe be swapped out for a controller.  You could use a cheap VGA to HDMI Adaptor for video, although most TV/Monitors support VGA.
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iWasAdam

got to say it's a great beastie. looks very powerful and simple :)

hackball

The Wii Nunchuk is easy to adress as it is I2C, that could be a reason.

Hardcoal

I too had a dream once making such a computer..
Things I've done:   https://itch.io/profile/hardcoal  [I keep improving them btw]

dawlane

Quote from: Hardcoal on July 03, 2020, 20:11:23
I too had a dream once making such a computer..
I think we've all been there are some point.

MikeHart

Quote from: dawlane on July 04, 2020, 19:19:08
Quote from: Hardcoal on July 03, 2020, 20:11:23
I too had a dream once making such a computer..
I think we've all been there are some point.
agreed. And your own programming language.

Steve Elliott

#10
I agree with Mike.

The 'Amiga-style' demos have begun, except instead of Assembly Language everything is written in Interpreted BASIC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=342msxxQVNQ
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Xerra

That's a great demo. All those years ago I dreamed of being able to do stuff like this in Basic. My maths was never good enough for the trickier stuff, though. Even if basic would have run it quick enough.
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