Commander X16

I've been keeping an eye on the network card for quite a while ... I'd love to tinker with it, though I think I want to wait until the last wrinkle or two is ironed out. If I were smart enough I'd offer to help. Until then ... just lurking some more

That's so cool to see IGN coverage.

Dr.J wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:40 am I like a bit of mystery.

I'm in the continental US, but one of the northernmost parts thereof. There are actually several states that are farther north than part of Canada. I'm in one of those.

I'm guessing it's the only state whose name has one syllable.

This video by Matt Heffernan gives a concrete example of how to shuffle data in and out of VRAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8-unoaWSc Note it's an old video based on the CX16 memory layout at the time. Everything is still relevant but some memory offsets might be different now. For example his...

FWIW, the card that shipped with my CX16 was

Silicon Power 8GB SDHC Class 10 SD Memory Card
https://sp-siliconpower.com/products/si ... emory-card

Thanks for all the replies. I'll buy a 32GB SDHC card from the place local to me (I'm not adventurous enough to buy them from amazon!)

I found this in the CMDR-DOS documentation: " CMDR-DOS uses the industry-standard FAT-32 format. Partitions can be 32MB up to (in theory) 2TB " which also doesn't really address how much the CX16 can ... address. Why I'm asking is I want to by an SD card for daily use and experimenting, an...

Have you made any games yet, jose014384? You could do what I did, which is to just think up something simple and achievable, and then just go for it. My first game was a framework for choose-your-own-adventure books. It had a simple data structure for each "page" (adventure text, 1 to 3 ch...

What is the smallest and largest capacity SD card I can use with the CX16? The only relevant info I could find is in the FAQ, but it only states " Older SD cards with less than 2GB may not be supported. " I got some hits from this forum's search results but those results are dead links (I ...

Regarding the 10 pin FP header ... https://github.com/X16Community/x16-docs/blob/master/X16%20Reference%20-%2014%20-%20Hardware.md#j8-front-panel NC (not connected) is clear enough. And the top 8 pins seem obvious (they would connect to the case's buttons and LEDs) What is the purpose of the +5V DC ...