Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ns.uoregon.edu!milton!ogicse!qiclab!percy!tektronix!reed!kuch From: kuch@reed.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Nintendo Emulator? Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 09:54:41 GMT References: <22722@know.pws.bull.com> Sender: nobody@reed.UUCP Reply-To: kuch@reed.bitnet (Jerry Kuch) Organization: Poisonous Reptiles Research Project Lines: 13 I took a Nintendo NES (or whatever the acronym is) apart once and was less than impressed. The CPU is not a 68000...it's an old MOS 6502! The Commodore-made chip that went in the Apple ][, the Atari 8-bits, the VIC and the C64. There are a couple of custom chips which I believe only Nintendo has the access too. I believe the specs are something like 280 x 160 screen resolution, on the order of 50 colors (maximum, a real value of 24 wouldn't be too surprising), and a few voices of low-fi sound. Basically, there's no function- ality there that wasn't in the Atari 5200 (basically a disemboweled Atari computer) during its brief and ill-fated stay on the market about 8 years ago. Their programming skills seem to have come a distance since then, but in the hardware zone, there's just not much to be impressed with...