[Coco] An idea for a GIME Chip "remake"

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Nick

The only way that I see to do that would be to do true DMA and that 
requires OS9 and DECB to be rewritten. 

Essentially you are looking at a whole complete remake of the 
Coco3.  


james


On 24 Aug 2004 at 6:25, Nickolas Marentes wrote:

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> James seems to be on the path of re-engineering the GIME chip.
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to add some sort of Bit Blitter
> function within the new GIME?
> 
> Some way of speeding up a block transfer of RAM will make an immense
> performance boost for games and even the movement of wondows in a
> possible upgrade of Multi-vue.
> 
> Nick
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