[Coco] "Historic" CD-i development systems...

[jdaggett at gate.net]

>From what I understood was the SCC68070 was a CMOS version of 
the MC68010 core without the Vector Base Register and the 
Alternate Function Code Registers. Signetics then added a limited 
MMU, 2 DMA channels, a UART, two 16bit counters, on board 
oscilator and most of all an IIC controller. 

james



On 17 Mar 2005 at 5:16, James Jones wrote:

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> I definitely need to keep up with this list better!
> 
> The CD-i player was way underpowered. The 68070 was a Signetics (which
> I think Philips bought) 68000 clone that had one less ALU, so that it
> was _slower than the 68000_...and there were much better 680x0
> processors around then. Todd Rundgren, writing about the CD-i version
> of _No World Order_, said that they pushed the system to the limit,
> and I don't think they were able to do everything they wanted.
> 
> Gamers weren't impressed with CD-i; probably the best CD-i game disc
> was Burn:Cycle. The other game titles that I recall were pretty lame.
> 
>  James Jones