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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
« on: December 08, 2012, 04:15:50 PM »
That has to be the best piece of wip pony art I've seen on this forum.
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Off Topic / Re: Axolotl attempts to make a script by reverse engineering another one.
« on: December 08, 2012, 04:13:09 PM »
ooh looks nice. I don't think I have any use for this right now though.
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Off Topic / Re: Vintage cpu question.
« on: December 08, 2012, 04:11:18 PM »Awesome so what do you think the arduino compares to in the vintage computer world? Im going to be attaching a nice lcd that has a great graphics processing unit compared to old computers that is built in.I'm guessing when I say this but something like this, Zilog Z80, would be simillar to an Atmega328.
In more detail I would compare the two datasheets of both CPU and the micro-controller if you wanted to find similarities.
Atmega328 Datasheet
I can't find a decent datasheet that I could trust on the internet right now for the Zilog Z80 but searching around should come up with something.
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Off Topic / Re: Vintage cpu question.
« on: December 08, 2012, 03:51:23 PM »Yes Im talking about the micro controller on the arduino vs an actual vintage 16-bit CPU @ 8 mhz. Im thinking about making my own 8-bit pocket computer and I want to see what it could do if it was in the old computer era.wowe
Arduino any day then. the Arduino is a micro-controller and from what I understand of them and has much better support for these sorts of things. Not only that but the lithography/performance/etc of the CPU embedded in the Arduino may be (I'm guessing with this because I don't know either of these ICs) better. I assume the Arduino chip you got is on a PCB.
Generally support for Arduino in the open-source community is really good so I recommend working with that instead of some old CPU.
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Off Topic / Re: Vintage cpu question.
« on: December 08, 2012, 03:36:38 PM »
Well it really depends, depending on what instructions are being executed.
Generally I wouldn't compare such CPUs unless you have more information such as how many registers there are in the register file, different mathematical capabilities within the ALU and lots of misc technical stuff relating to decoding and executing instructions and sending out data.
Out of personal preference and knowing CPUs, I would go with the 16-bit CPU. Also are you actually talking about micro-controllers instead of CPUs because that sounds like a micro-controller (which has additional features to consider).
Just looked it up, it's often used in micro-controllers but it's a complex-instruction-set-computing CPU using some sort of obsolete standard regarding architecture style.
Generally I wouldn't compare such CPUs unless you have more information such as how many registers there are in the register file, different mathematical capabilities within the ALU and lots of misc technical stuff relating to decoding and executing instructions and sending out data.
Out of personal preference and knowing CPUs, I would go with the 16-bit CPU. Also are you actually talking about micro-controllers instead of CPUs because that sounds like a micro-controller (which has additional features to consider).
Just looked it up, it's often used in micro-controllers but it's a complex-instruction-set-computing CPU using some sort of obsolete standard regarding architecture style.
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Gallery / Re: [VIDEO] Blockland Battle Royale Server Preview
« on: December 08, 2012, 03:17:59 PM »
Looks good. Music matches up well.
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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
« on: December 08, 2012, 02:42:06 PM »that's the jokeI wanted to see if anybody else noticed it.
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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
« on: December 08, 2012, 02:34:26 PM »
Scoot's wings sound like a moped (small engine bike).
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Off Topic / Re: what do you want/what are you getting for christmas?
« on: December 08, 2012, 01:13:14 PM »
Mixture of computer components.
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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
« on: December 08, 2012, 11:32:45 AM »
Pusillanimous Scootaloo.
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Off Topic / Re: My 500$ Rare Dr. Grip Mechanical Pencil (vs. Zebra Multi)
« on: December 08, 2012, 11:28:54 AM »
I understand collector's items since I have some signed copies of a few world of warcraft books but....
a loving pencil for $500.00?
a loving pencil for $500.00?
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Off Topic / Re: Got somebody to fix my computer. They ended up ruining my birthday weekend
« on: December 07, 2012, 05:59:32 PM »
That naming convention makes it sound old but it was made in 2009
What previous graphics card or Intel GMA did you use?
What previous graphics card or Intel GMA did you use?
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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
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Off Topic / Re: My Little Pony: Friendship for Blockheads: General V2
« on: December 07, 2012, 04:01:20 PM »
Every so often I search for decent MLP roguelikes.
None so far. There was something called Anquestria (Angband-like) but it's died.
None so far. There was something called Anquestria (Angband-like) but it's died.