>I was wondering if an Atari mathbox could be emulated on a sufficiently
>fast
>micro-controller, since the AMD 2901s are going to become scarcer and
>scarcer.
>I'm pretty sure it could be done.
I'd thought about that too-- in particular, Jeff and I had discussed adding
a little "mathbox"-like board to Space Duel to use it as a general-purpose
development platform for new games. (Seems like Space Duel is one of the
more common vector games out there, and it has lots of buttons. ;-)
I was quite pleased with the number of "math-co-ops" that a 100MHz Scenix
processor could do just running the reference Microchip PIC math libraries.
I don't really know what kind of speed the Atari Mathbox achieves though.
Those 2901's are pretty fast.
>It's true, we were majorly bummed when we found out AOL disks weren't
>nearly as
>exciting to watch as on old CD-R...
>
>So they still didn't think it was destroyed properly? Maybe you only set
>the
>microwave to stun, next time set it to kill (the '10' button).
I've noticed that CDR's tend to "flake" off after being nuked, but "regular"
CD's don't-- I assume that's just because a CDR has the media layer adhering
to one side instead of encapsulated?
-Clay
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