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Andrew Owen  
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 More options May 17 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair
From: Andrew Owen <ao...@brandnewco.org>
Date: 2000/05/17
Subject: Re: RFC: ULA Replacement for ZX Spectrum SE
in article 8ftndk$ne...@soap.pipex.net, Geoff Winkless at
geoff-at-farmline-dot-...@127.0.0.1 wrote on 17/5/00 10:10 am:

> The way the Sam Coupe handled it was BASIC kept a copy of the current
> palette in memory but the actual palette was OUT only.

Just out of interest, which OUT exactly and how did it work?

> I often thought how nice it would have been to have been able to read the
> palette with IN, but really it wouldn't have made that much difference...

We could do that with this project.

> On an aside, I have to say that it seems a tad ... pointless to reproduce
> MGT's work, which appears (to me) to be what you're doing.

How many SAMs are there out there, how many Spectrums? This idea will start
out as emulated hardware but I hope it will make it into a real hardware
board that you can plug into a real machine.

-Andrew


 
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