Michael Kent wrote:
What PC platform? I must be completely confused, because I thought the Carte Blanche was an Apple II card. If it's a PC card, then never mind.
Of course it is. However developing of the bit file that tells an FPGA what to do can only be done on a modern computer with vast resources. Say at least 1 GB of RAM, etc. So the configuration end up on a PC (or a *NIX box). It appears easier to send it over via a wire to the CB inside an Apple 2 than to transfer to the Apple media first and then use the 6502 to transfer it to the FPGA. Or put on a memory card and let CB copy it to its flash memory as we are now doing.
Even if no development is done and one uses a downloaded new configuration it is likely to be a PC/Mac/whatever used for the downloading. So the same logic applies.
-Alex.