The Commander X16 is The 8-Bit Guy’s dream computer, designed to evoke the same fondness and nostalgia many of us had for 8-Bit computers, while retaining closeness to the hardware from a programming perspective, unlike the Raspberry Pi and others.
I like it a lot but the kind of compromises that had to be made to make it feel a little tragic to me.
That is, people are complaining that it is as expensive as it is, but it really it can’t compete with a Raspberry api unless it is built in the same volume and to the same level of integration as the RPi.
The video controller is really tough, I saw an ad in Byte magazine circa 1979 for a video controller made of CMOS chips, it took up both sides of a moderate sized circuit board. All those machines like the TRS-80 Color Computer and Atari 800 and C64 had ASIC video controllers and they had to settle on an FPGA to make something practical.
I like the way the interface between the CPU and video memory works, it avoids the video system from stealing half the CPU cycles which slowed down those machines terribly.
I am not so sure about the memory banking scheme. It is really practical from the viewpoint of a mostly 8-bit machine but I do have some attraction to the idea of a 24-bit micro that is like the really old 360 mainframes, I think my favorite idea for a computer like this would be to use the eZ80 which has a real 24 bit mode but banking has its charms too. In the US we don’t think about Z80 machines having color graphics though that was a pretty common thing in the UK and Japan.
It doesn’t, therapy does. When you take it suddenly - within an hour - you find yourself in a very different mindstate where you don’t feel shit, maybe for the first time in your life. This experience can shorten the time you need to process, it can make the therapy shorter. It’s not the drug doing its thing, it’s you and the therapist together doing the thing.
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