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Axel F, the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, played more or less on an original Amiga.  It looks like this is an emulator, and it has 1MB of RAM where a stock Amiga had just 512K, but pretty close.

The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good.  But it nailed this piece.


Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.

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1 "Arm sued both Qualcomm and Nuvia, arguing that although both companies had paid Arm for a license they mumble mumble mumble and therefore mumble."

I read that Arm's claim was that Nuvia's license was non-transferrable.  If that's true (and legal), they probably should've won--but Qualcomm could've avoided this situation by keeping Nuvia alive, claiming the Oryon cores were still Nuvia's, and then "buying" them from their own subsidiary.

That makes me wonder if they did it the way they did on purpose.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, February 07 2025 11:15 PM (NEIix)

2 I'd love to find a relatively-inexpensive SBC with 3-4 Cortex-A cores that had a complete datasheet and technical manual, like you can easily find with Cortex-M cores.  I'm not picky about it, something with a few A7s would be cool to play with.  (Everyone who offers stuff like that seems to just straight up provide a Linux image but it might be interesting to do something a little less complex.)

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, February 07 2025 11:18 PM (NEIix)

3 Mumble. (And you can quote me on that.)

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, February 08 2025 04:31 AM (KOtXO)

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