Re: APPLE ][ Clone-Project?

["E.-R. Bruecklmeier" <spamport@eric-bruecklmeier.de>]

Andrew Trotman schrieb:

> This seems like the currently cheapest wasy to solve this problem at the
> moment.  They are all original components and when I finally blow one up
> I'll fix it from bits on the other motherboards.

It is more the academical interesst what drives me. I think it is an
interessting project to clone an apple ][+ let's say on an atmel
MEGA-AVR and a Xilinx 95C216 - which is can still use the original ROMs
and can serve the original cards and peripherals.
 

> 
> There are some "problems" with a 100% modern compatible:
>     Where are you going to get a "modern" 1978 style floppy disk drive?
>     What OS are you going to run? Will DOS 3.3 run on a 50Gb hard drive?
>     100% compatible with what?  ][ ][plus //e //c or IIgs?

][+ would be enough.

>     There are no "modern" versions of some of the original chips!!
>     The custom chips no longer exist so a clone may be physicaly large.

I don't plan to use modern versions of the old chips - i want to build
something like a "hardware emulator" of an apple ][+ which behaves to
the outer world like a real one.

blue skies!
Eric.

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