Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe...
by rbanffy on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:25AM
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It wasn't much faster on the Apple II...
Even though its BASIC interpreter used a 40-bit float, that I was downsampling the resolution to get 64-ish dithered colors, and that it was compiled down to mostly ROM calls, it took a very long time to render regions, in special those closer to the set itself.
Ok. As clock-efficient as the 6502 was, it still ran at 1 MHz.
Even though its BASIC interpreter used a 40-bit float, that I was downsampling the resolution to get 64-ish dithered colors, and that it was compiled down to mostly ROM calls, it took a very long time to render regions, in special those closer to the set itself.
Ok. As clock-efficient as the 6502 was, it still ran at 1 MHz.