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  • Re: Color maximite 2

    From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Daniel on Thu Jul 9 13:07:32 2020
    Saw it as soon as it came out. Impressive that it was running everything in interpreted BASIC...with the games he was running going as fast/faster than their DOS versions.
    Indeed. Makes me wonder how those games would run written in assembly.

    As fast as they were running in Interpreted BASIC...I would expect they would be way too fast to play. Look fantastic...but ASM would probably make them unplayable.

    It would be a fun platform to learn basic and write some tight modern software.

    I agree. Just had a thought that if someone got one of these...got some of
    the old BBS's written in BASIC & set it up for this box. For that
    matter...you could get Ahl's books online as PDF's. Setup stuff like this on the system.

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  • From Daniel@1:340/7 to Don Lowery on Fri Jul 10 08:50:00 2020
    Don Lowery wrote to Daniel <=-

    Saw it as soon as it came out. Impressive that it was running everything in interpreted BASIC...with the games he was running going as fast/faster than their DOS versions.
    Indeed. Makes me wonder how those games would run written in assembly.

    As fast as they were running in Interpreted BASIC...I would expect they would be way too fast to play. Look fantastic...but ASM would probably make them unplayable.

    Wouldn't it be possible to write a game in such a way that the game and engine can load quickly but throttle the gameplay?

    It would be a fun platform to learn basic and write some tight modern software.

    I agree. Just had a thought that if someone got one of these...got some
    of the old BBS's written in BASIC & set it up for this box. For that matter...you could get Ahl's books online as PDF's. Setup stuff like
    this on the system.

    That would be hella tight.

    I'd like to design an all-in-one with the color maximite 2 inside and mimic the old c64. Have it 3d printed.

    Daniel Traechin

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