8-bit War (Was Processor balance)

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Nov 16 20:00:29 2000

> > Yea, there is the Turbo 816 upgrade for the Atari too. It never went very
> > far though. In 816 mode compatability suffers badly.

> I'm pretty sure CMD is still manufacturing the SuperCPU modules. I don't
> know if there are any compatibility issues with it however, since I've
> never owned one.

Few, actually. It runs in 6502 emulation most of the time, but the timing
really isn't a problem because it talks to the bus at the regular 1MHz and
also keeps IRQs at the regular 60Hz frequency. So a lot of software,
amazingly, works unmodified, and there's a lot of software now that is
being patched to run native.

And CMD does still make them. http://www.cmdweb.com/

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