This genuinely put a huge smile on my face when I seen it this morning! Simply amazing!
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Very very happy and excited for this. As much as I'd like to have one of those (homelessness sucks!), I'd much rather have all the developers that have put a lot of time in - especially those in tool and kernel development - have theirs first.
If there's any way I can help, I'd love to.
I would like to ask for one thing, though. An easy way to assign banks of space and then reference them. LOCATE is a powerful tool, and so is DOS. What I'd absolutely love is control over sections of managed memory. You have the memory - you have all the memory! - but the tools to use it efficiently would be a great help.
For sure - this has me turning my eye to Retrotrek again. Really can't wait to see efficient and easy methods of file IO to memory without smashing my head into memory segments.
I really want one of the first batch too. Maybe if it is over subscribed 100 or 200 could be made. The reason I want one is that I am VERY interested in hardware development which, obviously, I can't do with the emulator. I have several ideas already and it would be really good to get at least one design ready for the actual launch. I am more than happy to build in myself if that's easier for the team. I was a component level service engineer with Acorn 8 bit and 32 bit machines back in the late 80s and early 90s. I have created several hardware and software products for those and also for the CPC range where I wrote 2 ROMs whilst I was still at school.
I really want one of the first batch too. Maybe if it is over subscribed 100 or 200 could be made. The reason I want one is that I am VERY interested in hardware development which, obviously, I can't do with the emulator. I have several ideas already and it would be really good to get at least one design ready for the actual launch. I am more than happy to build in myself if that's easier for the team. I was a component level service engineer with Acorn 8 bit and 32 bit machines back in the late 80s and early 90s. I have created several hardware and software products for those and also for the CPC range where I wrote 2 ROMs whilst I was still at school.
Pleeeeease.........
Sounds like you should address this to the design team.