Multiprocessors (formerly Super Spectrum)
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From Igor Maznitsa → To All 30 July 1997
St.Petersburg codepage 866
Wednesday July 30 1997
10:22
Hello, comrade Alexander!
AG> In principle, if you think about it, you can still pull out the spectrum.
AG> Some time ago (about a year ago), I was developing a multiprocessor
I also developed it, but it’s more likely not a multiprocessor system, but a
pseudo-multiprocessor.
AG> Specki’s scheme, it seems like something worked out, although it sucks, but it
AG> is excusable, because At that time I still didn’t understand his scheme well. And
AG> now,
AG> having thought, I realized that without
AG> problems it is possible to increase, due to multiprocessing, bit capacity and
AG> performance, if you arrange something like a conveyor on a stump.
And due to pseudo-multiprocessing, you can colorize old games and increase
performance in terms of graphics
AG> Increase memory to several gigabytes; (consider, page mechanism
AG> without bells and whistles (65000*16384*8), with bells and whistles (65000*16384*256)), really
AG> is it necessary??? If it were possible to take another, more powerful processor
AG> than the standard Spectrum, but compatible with it, it would be a different matter,
Fuck another processor is not needed, the Z80 is a cheap and powerful processor, hitherto
used in all machines like Spectrum
AG> but, if only, if only, in the yard was bloomingflowers. In general, the Spectrum, unfortunately, is gradually disappearing, and if you don’t make a super-Spectrum, then soon, in 20 years, it will disappear, because it’s clear that if people, instead of improving Specky, invent new
monsters that have a mode in which they work like Specky, then very soon the Spectrum will remain only in memories and emulators
Sincerely yours Igor
>> Together We will put an end to all bourgeois evil spirits!!!!!
From Alexander Glebov → To All 31 July 1997
AG>> mechanism without bells and whistles (65000*16384*8), with
AG>> bells and whistles (65000*16384*256)), is it really necessary??? If it were possible
AG>> to take another, more powerful percent than the standard Spectrum, but
AG>> compatible with it, it would be a different matter,
IM> Fuck another percent is not needed, the Z80 is a cheap and powerful processor, hitherto
IM> used in all Spectrum-type machines
I mean that develop a new z-80, increasing the speed, and maybe
bit capacity due to current technologies, and the fact that it is powerful is true, but
think, it is better to have a new, more powerful thing, but which is friendly;) with the old one, not at the level of emuls, but as a real processor, or the old one, but by some standards already
outdated.