(*) Mentioned and perhaps even better presented in this retrocomputing stackexchange post. From my examination of WDC data sheets I do not think that will be very hard to do. Most Macintosh files are compressed and archived using an. pls file and drag it onto the player as you would an MP3. Stop by a site like Shoutcast and download the. It's a wonderful MP3 player, and is very light-weight. This means they will have to at least respect the timing margins given by WDC. My all-time favorite piece of software for the 68K Macintosh is MpegDec 3.11. (They'd better.)īTW, Apple has had the tools to do what ASIC is doing for a few years now.ĪSIC has claimed from the start that they will be fully compatible with the PLCC version of WDC's chip. If the ASIC chip really is 100% compatible then Apple will jump on it. Gate arrays are now fast enough (and big enough for an 8000 gate design like the 65816) they are also cheaper to make and are very easy to second source. They might have fixed ABORT, but I don't know for sure. Their utmost goal is "105% compatibility" meaning that all software will work (even the Disk ][) and that the REP/SEP quirks will be gone. What I am ragging on is the fact that they are trying to milk more speed out of the same mask when it would be a lot easier to redesign the mask itself so it is native to a newer technology that does run at higher speeds.ĪSIC reverse-engineered the chip from WDC's timing diagrams.
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