When I found out about the project where a GBA was hooked up to an ATAPI harddrive and CDROM, I nearly stained my underwear. Who the hell cares about CDROMS and harddrives----Compact Flash cards ARE COMPATIBLE WITH ATAPI, PIN FOR PIN--they look just like a regular harddrive. A GBA compact...
What ever happened to the GPi, Will we ever see a flip-top version of the GP32? Will we ever see one that uses the ARM1020T processor (much faster, 32k inst cache, 32k data0---twice what the gp32 has---it also runs ALOT faster--since the price of ram has fallen through the floor, how about 32mb...
Whatever happened to the GPi, it looked awesome, had built in cellphone (GSM, so not usable in the US [we use CDMA]) it looked cool, was a flip top like GBA.
No news about it for a while now.
What happened?
If you're going to add a BOOST CONVERTER (steps up voltage) and a LOGIC LEVEL CONVERTER (converts data & address signals to the proper voltage) why not just convert the WHOLE THING to support COMPACT FLASH cards which offer up to 3 GBytes of data?
Smart Media cards
Secure Digital Cards
MultiMedia Cards
alll suck
why? because you're limited to 128MEGABYTES, maybe 256 in some cases.
compact flash goes all the way to around 3GBytes. Yes I know it writes slower, Yes, I know the ARM 9 natively supports SMC's so it would need a data...
problem here is this:
The NeoGeo system used 2 CPUs, an 8bit Z80 for sound and a 68000 derivative for game processing. Running both of those at the same time would interesting to see (on an embedded RISC chip like the one that GP32 has.)