Re: A 21st Century Apple II?

[apple2freak@gmail.com]

On Mar 7, 12:13 pm, "Simon D. Williams" <bb...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, apple2fr...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I have no interest in making this a business.  This is my hobby and
> > I'm just happy that there are other people out there with similar
> > interests I can share it with.
>
> > If you're limited to the $200 price range, there are other FPGA dev
> > boards bywww.knjn.comwhich may interest you.  Check out the Xylo-EM
> > which has an Altera Cyclone II FPGA + VGA + Ethernet (10baseT) support
> > on it all for $129!
>
> How feasible is it for a novice to get one of these things going? Assuming
> someone smart has already done the programming, could I purchace one of
> these boards and just download the appropriate ROM file(?) and have a
> reasonable chance of success, or is this something that requires more
> specialised knowledge? I guess my interest in a project like this really
> starts *after* there's a working board ;-)
>
You might check with Alex & Steve of www.applelogic.org to see if
their Apple IIe design could easily run on this hardware.  Also, at
the top of this thread, I pointed out another IIe FPGA implementation
by Stephen Edwards of Columbia University.  He uses an Altera DE2
development board which goes for $269 for educational customers, or
$495 for commercial customers.  I suspect that if you choose a dev
board different from what the system was originally developed on,
there will be some tinkering required to make everything work.  If
this doesn't interest you, or you don't have the right background for
it, you might want to wait until someone else gets it working for you.

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Apple2Freak