Utterly Impressive Homebrew Handheld
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Exophase
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IMO modern 8-bit CPUs are best leveraged in high volume parts, I never really got the appeal to using them in hobbyist things like this. Would much rather see a Cortex-M3 part employed here. But at least it's not a PIC being used, I'm much happier to see an AVR instead.
Very impressive software though. I wonder what video it supports.. surely nothing with very sophisticated compression. I also wonder about the Pac-Man demo, is it a clone, or just a video? Definitely not emulated.. the 3D is actually what impresses me the least, I've seen almost as good on an NES which is much weaker.
Very impressive software though. I wonder what video it supports.. surely nothing with very sophisticated compression. I also wonder about the Pac-Man demo, is it a clone, or just a video? Definitely not emulated.. the 3D is actually what impresses me the least, I've seen almost as good on an NES which is much weaker.
i wonder how well some of the old-time 8-bit mutitasking environments would run on that thing (i.e. there was an 6800-based os with a pre-emptive scheduler, but i can't remember its name for the life of me).Exophase said:
judging by some of the comments of readers who claim to have seen the code - the video is uncompressed - the guy is just streaming-in raw pictures from the media. then again, one could argue that so does mjpeg ; )
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Exophase
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darkblu said:
I dunno, but I think that preemptive multitasking is a bad use of resources for slow 8bit embedded platforms. I think people too easily dismiss cooperative multitasking in general, when it's usually a better solution if all your software plays nice.
Strangely, I think preemptive multitasking would have much more relative overhead on an AVR than a 6800 because the former has over 32 registers that have to be switched and the latter only has a few.
darkblu said:
Not surprising. Personally I would be impressed if this could stream MJPEG at 2fps, much less 60.
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Orkie
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And that is why you aren't 'in' with the crowdExophase said:
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Exophase
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Ah yeah, I guess that's why your crowd didn't vote me into the club last board meeting..Orkie said:And that is why you aren't 'in' with the crowd
Nice to see you're back here with your useless trolling bullshit responses and not anything of substance for a change, good show :>
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