Commander X16

Okay, having read and thought about this a lot more than I had when I answered the poll, I must admit I changed my mind. I now think very few people here will lose interest in the X16 just because they can have an X8 now, and it will allow Dave to get some money to fund further X16 development whil...

Speaking of upgradeability - I'm curious: Is there anyone here who does not plan to max out their X16's RAM to 2MB immediately? Leaving the X8 aside for a moment, the availability of an X16 with less than 2MB of RAM could also lead to people developing only for the smallest common platform, couldn'...

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I'd also buy an X8 without thinking twice if it were available(*), but I think the concerns about having two semi-compatible platforms cannibalizing each other's user (and more importantly: developer) base are valid.

(*) in addition to the X16 Phase1 Kit, which I still want most.

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I guess I'll have to retract my earlier criticism about the X16's audio capabilities.

This sounds actually quite a lot better than I would have expected.

Thank you!

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Nope, not possible. Wouldn't give you much of an advantage anyway, except if you want to copy large amounts of data from one area in banked ram to another.

Plus, you'd have to deal with the reset and interrupt vectors which are hardcoded at the end of the 65C02's address space.

I think we are missing the true elephant in the room here. What we should really worry about are people/websites that call short video files "GIF" when they are in fact something else (like MP4 for example). That is just wrong, and they deserve bad things happening to them.

Beautiful! Does the X16 support the middle button/wheel? The scroll wheel is one of the more "modern" UI features that I miss most when working on the Amiga. So although it is a bit of an anachronism on an 8bit system (like VGA and SD cards), I would welcome it. I suspect this is purely a software ...