First of all this was super cool!! As another person who makes TH-cam vidoes but isn't a TH-camr, you did amazing for this presentation. And if you think your English is bad you should hear my German! I've been designing my own CPU around the 6502 and I'd never heard of the 4510 before, this gives me something new to research. Great job!
One update: I now know that the 32 bit multiplier/divider unit also works in the emulator (BASIC65 does use it, apparently). Second update: but the Q Register opcode do not :( This is my first venture into MEGA65 coding, so if there are things I could have done better, please drop me a comment! And very important: preorders for MEGA65 are due to start next week! Keep your eyes open!
Nicely done :) Do let me know if you would like some pointers to making a graphical Mandelbrot viewer on the MEGA65. It would be fun to see how fast it could be made to run.
Well, it has the Math Acceleration Registers which do 32bit multiplication and division. This is used by BASIC65 for the floating point operations, and in my HiRes video I also use it for the assembler version.
It's an reply to Matt Heffernan's 8-bit Battle Royal, who did this for other retro platforms and forgot about the MEGA65, so I am adding to this. Watch Matts videos here to see how the others compare: slithy VLOGS #15 (BASIC Leaderboard): th-cam.com/video/RzjvvF2vRec/w-d-xo.html slithy VLOGS #17 (Assembler Leaderboard): th-cam.com/video/BWQDAKTLFXk/w-d-xo.html
@@OliverGraf He seems to have forgotten the C64 as well. Kind of a big oversight considering the target (8 bit micros of the period)... though I am not sure the M65 nor the X16 can be directly compared as it did not exist then (unfair comparison I think)... however, comparing the M65, Speccy Next and X16 is a valid comparison as they are new implementations of a retro-type platform IMHO.
First of all this was super cool!! As another person who makes TH-cam vidoes but isn't a TH-camr, you did amazing for this presentation. And if you think your English is bad you should hear my German! I've been designing my own CPU around the 6502 and I'd never heard of the 4510 before, this gives me something new to research. Great job!
One update: I now know that the 32 bit multiplier/divider unit also works in the emulator (BASIC65 does use it, apparently).
Second update: but the Q Register opcode do not :(
This is my first venture into MEGA65 coding, so if there are things I could have done better, please drop me a comment!
And very important: preorders for MEGA65 are due to start next week! Keep your eyes open!
Nicely done :) Do let me know if you would like some pointers to making a graphical Mandelbrot viewer on the MEGA65. It would be fun to see how fast it could be made to run.
I tried this program on the Dragon 32 emulated using XRoar. It took over a minute in BASIC.
Nice video! Excuse your English? Sounds perfect compared to mine ;)
If only the Mega65 had a FPU to handle IEEE754 floating point,doubles and long doubles
Well, it has the Math Acceleration Registers which do 32bit multiplication and division. This is used by BASIC65 for the floating point operations, and in my HiRes video I also use it for the assembler version.
Ummm... a Battle Royale would include all contenders... not just one. This is more like "MEGA65 Benchmark".
It's an reply to Matt Heffernan's 8-bit Battle Royal, who did this for other retro platforms and forgot about the MEGA65, so I am adding to this.
Watch Matts videos here to see how the others compare:
slithy VLOGS #15 (BASIC Leaderboard): th-cam.com/video/RzjvvF2vRec/w-d-xo.html
slithy VLOGS #17 (Assembler Leaderboard): th-cam.com/video/BWQDAKTLFXk/w-d-xo.html
@@OliverGraf He seems to have forgotten the C64 as well. Kind of a big oversight considering the target (8 bit micros of the period)... though I am not sure the M65 nor the X16 can be directly compared as it did not exist then (unfair comparison I think)... however, comparing the M65, Speccy Next and X16 is a valid comparison as they are new implementations of a retro-type platform IMHO.