Re: An FPGA card for Apple

[alex.freed.007@gmail.com]

On Jan 1, 9:21 pm, calibra...@freenet.de wrote:
>
> I assume there are enough collectors out there to warrant a small run.
> Give it a fancy name like "Chameleon Card" or something like that
> and sell it for whatever it costs - the first 50 cards will be sold in
> a
> few months.

Collectors are not our target audience. The revenue doesn't remotely
justify
the time spent on the projects. It's the "fame" we are after :)
I would like to see people actively using the boards and making their
own
applications.


> Here comes the "but": You'll need a "killer application" for it as
> most  people can't program that thing and won't develop for it.

The most obvious "killer application" will probably be a VGA
compatible
video board that will display all the Apple video on a standard VGA
monitor. It can add new video modes and even act as an accelerated
video processor, but that will be left to the users.

In any case I didn't do the physical board myself. A friend did.
Take a look at the web page he set up.

http://www.applelogic.org

Looks like there is some interest and we'll try to finalize the
design
and do a production run. But first I have to finish the promised
Applicard clone.

-Alex.