Re: Carte Blanche

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Apr 17, 9:46 am, alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 16, 4:28 pm, "Garberstreet Electronics" <willy4...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Ok, let me understand this. Now I will have Alex's Z80
> > replica, AND, will also have one I can make the CB card
> > into?   KOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I gotta have a Carte Blanche.
>
> The z80 on Carte Blanche is not a very practical design as the "real"
> SoftCards and
> clones are plentiful on e-bay and only run at 2 MHz. So using my PCPI
> clone is more
> practical if your goal is to run CP/M on Apple. However this project
> is a very nice
> example of what is possible to do with the Carte Blanche including
> soft co-processors,
> interface to real CPUs, etc.
>
> The application that will be practical and will be pre-loaded into CBs
> is a (mostly done)
> VGA compatible video. I already have a fully functional version but it
> is using a pixel
> clock derived from genuine Apple timing - 14.28 MHZ that looks great
> on analog VGA
> but sucks on LCD monitors due to resampling. The new one rescans at 25
> MHz just
> right for VGA mode.
>
> Anyway the CB is ready for production and we need to know how many to
> build. Let's
> start here. Who wants it?
>
> -Alex.

Alex/Steve,

As I would primarily use the CB in my IIgs, is there a list of the
possible uses of this card (apart from the SD and IDE interfaces)? I
already own a CFFA, so that feature is not a huge draw card for me.

I would like to know if this card will be capable of IIgs specific
applications - e.g. as an accelerator, IIgs super hi-res video to VGA,
math co-processor, ethernet card (ok this isn't IIgs specific), etc.
Not necessarily what it is capable of initially, but what it might
become.

Sorry if this has been asked before (but I don't have the time to go
over the 63+ postings). Could you possibly add a list of possible
applications of the card onto the website? This would benefit others
contemplating the purchase as well.

I'm probably leaning towards getting a CB because it sounds so cool
(you guys have really outdone yourselves this time!), but it would be
nice to have a gut feel of how the card might benefit me in future.

Thanks,
Mike