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Re: Carte Blanche

Michael J. Mahon wrote:


Steve, it wasn't immediately apparent whether it was possible to
re-program the board while it is installed by running Apple II software.

This would enable it to be a real "chameleon card", since configurations
could be loaded into the card in a few seconds to alter its personality.
This ideas has been discussed on this forum but proved to be a huge task. More on the software side than the hardware side. Porting the 
JTAG programming tool to an 8 bit CPU with rather limited resources
is far from trivial. And if you absolutely have to have it, you
probably can. It's not too hard to make a Wiggler-style interface between an Apple parallel card and the JTAG port on Carte Blanche. Just write the software :) 

-Alex.