MIT want to make $12 Apple II clone

[Jim Brain]

Jim Leonard wrote:
> Jim Leonard wrote:
>> Bryan Pope wrote:
>>> Why do they not use a Commodore 64 instead?  It has already been 
>>> reduced to a single chip by Jeri Ellsworth and it has enhanced 
>>> graphics that are better then what the original C64 had.
>>
>> How so?
>
> Sorry, that wasn't clear; I'll restate:
>
> How did Jeri's FPGA solution have enhanced graphics that were better 
> than the original?
There are a lot of new features, the main ones:

    * It provided a DMA engine to blit data on the screen.
    * It provided more colors per cell
    * It prvides more color options.

no new resolution., though, AFAIK.

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