07-04-2022, 11:39 PM
(06-04-2022, 09:21 PM)mjelic Wrote: Ewan: I really do love the look of the new case an keyboard!
But I have to say I don't have time or patience to learn a new processor, after the Z80. What I would dearly love, with all this new-fangled surface mount thingoes is a super-fast, beefed up Z80 that could handle high rez graphics in lots of colours. I don;t want to learn C or any other language. I know Z80 Assembler and Basic, and those are the programming languages I will die with.
The Classic-Plus / 256TC-Plus will have more colors, and full 4-bit plane graphics that is compatible with the standard and premium series graphics but the restriction of colour per character cell removed.
As far as colours go, it will have 16 foreground and another 16 separate background colours (up to 32 total on screen at one time) from a palette of 4096. Resolution up to 640 x 256 with this colour scheme.
The Z80 will run at up to 10Mhz, so around 3 times the speed of a regular bee. Running normal Microbee CP/M / Graphic Shell.
BTW, the second processor is a MC68000 core (same as Amiga, Mac, Atari ST etc) which can run CP/M-68K
If you enjoy Z80 assembler, you'll love M68K assembler.