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Retron 5 (aka 4)
scarmullet:
Bits today really mean nothing, hell Bits never really meant anything. The bit is just the word size in binary, and the type of registers involved denote the word length (8bit registers, 16 bit registers etc). The registers are used to store data for quick access functions, such as things dealing with math it needs to crunch.
If it blows your mind that the Gamecube has a 32bit Processor, then how about this. The Playstation 3 is also 32bit, while the Xbox 360 is 64...and people argue that the PS3 is more powerful.
How about this? What was the first 16bit console? Genesis? TG-16? It was actually the Intellivision from Mattel, and the colecovision surpassed it in power, while being an 8 bit system.
What really matters is the processor speed, and overall performance, not so much the type of registers between 32bit and 64bit.
larryinc64:
PCs and Macs today only have 32 or 64 bits, depending on what you buy, It was just used as a buzz word in advertising and does not mean much.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on June 17, 2013, 08:47:05 PM ---Bits today really mean nothing, hell Bits never really meant anything. The bit is just the word size in binary, and the type of registers involved denote the word length (8bit registers, 16 bit registers etc). The registers are used to store data for quick access functions, such as things dealing with math it needs to crunch.
If it blows your mind that the Gamecube has a 32bit Processor, then how about this. The Playstation 3 is also 32bit, while the Xbox 360 is 64...and people argue that the PS3 is more powerful.
How about this? What was the first 16bit console? Genesis? TG-16? It was actually the Intellivision from Mattel, and the colecovision surpassed it in power, while being an 8 bit system.
What really matters is the processor speed, and overall performance, not so much the type of registers between 32bit and 64bit.
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The best part about the TG-16 is that it's the only 16-bit console with 16 in its name and it technically has an 8-bit CPU :P
--- Quote from: larryinc64 on June 17, 2013, 09:48:35 PM ---PCs and Macs today only have 32 or 64 bits, depending on what you buy, It was just used as a buzz word in advertising and does not mean much.
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"Only" is not really the word to use. In reality, we'll NEVER see computers with anything higher than 128bit processors. And even those will be overkill for like 95% of all computing needs. 64bit will cut it for most everything.
JDavis:
64-bit PCs only really came into prominence a few years back
--- Quote from: wiggy on June 18, 2013, 07:51:10 PM ---The best part about the TG-16 is that it's the only 16-bit console with 16 in its name and it technically has an 8-bit CPU :P
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8-bit CPU, 16 bit GPUs... Which is why it ends up playing/looking half-way between a NES and SNES for the most part, in my opinion.
ChaosCat:
ok I Got to See and play one over the Week End at the TooManyGames EXPO! a few high lights of the system! if a Game does not work on the retron 5 it records the data to an SD Card! then you can send then the data online, and they will design an update and send it back to you, the one thing about it is it only has HDMI out put so no light gun Games are Playable! they had it displayed in both glossy Black, and a Snes Color Scheme, I asked what the Price was going to be they replied that it has not been finalized but there shooting for under 100 dollars/USD! It also has slots for snes, Sega Genesis, and if i remember right the third was NES Controllers!!!
If I did not already have all those consoles id most likely get one!
Update!
I forgot to mention you can use the SD Card slot on the system for save Stats! so thats pretty damn handy especially for games with dead batteries!
Also the GBA slot on the front is backwards compatible with Gameboy and GameBoy Color!!!