Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Alex Freed wrote: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.Perhaps I'm unusual, but I doubt it--My Apple //e is in a differentroom from my PC, and I like it that way!
Nope, you are not alone. My //e and IIgs are a room (a world) apart from my Mac mini.
Perhaps one could fashion a Carte Blanche to update/configure another Carte Blanch, or, in the words of C-3P0, "Machines making machines! How perverse!"