Re: Not your father's Applicard

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Jan 9, 2:35 pm, alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 8, 6:32 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Then a "flying lead" from the card's JTAG pins to the game port's
> > annunciator outputs and pushbutton inputs might do the job.  ;-)
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> Sure. You can probably even use a standard parallel port JTAG cable
> connected to Grappler. It's just a "simple matter of software".

Either of those are more than adequate solutions for the z80 card. I
imagine though that an integrated solution would make more sense on
the generic FPGA card, since this would make it easy to ship
'customisers' + FPGA firmware that could be installed and activated on
the Apple II without needing any additional tools.

This would lif the appeal of the device to 'consumer class' instead of
just 'hacker class'. Well worth the couple of extra SOIC's or tiny
CPLD the addition would require.

Matt