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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Developing for the Lynx
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Date: 17 Jan 90 17:10:00 GMT
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In article <759@cs.wmich.edu> dodgson@cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) writes:
>	The people at Atari will be happy to SELL you a development system
>as they build them.  Can you afford $5000.00 for a custom board that
>plugs into your Amiga?  I couldn't, therefore I didn't get one.

Nor I.  I assume this chunk of cash buys only the board & software, and
you supply the Amiga?  I suppose $5K is chump-change for the game houses,
but ow! it sure isn't for us mortals.

>	I didn't find out what language was supported, but a 4 MHz 65C02
>can compete with an 8 MHz 68000 in execution cycles, so don't sell it short.
>A few 16 MHz coprocessors don't hurt either.  As far as a simulator, the
>board executes all the code, so simulation on the Amiga screen isn't needed.

Sort of related question: whatever happened to the 6809 chip?  I always
thought it had a lot going for it, too, as 8-bit chips go.  The only
commercial computer/game that I know for sure used it was the Tandy Co-Co.
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