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Re: Choplifter, still no go on Apple IIc +



sfahey wrote:
  To: Michael J. Mahon
  Re: Re: Choplifter, still no go on Apple IIc +
  By: Michael J. Mahon to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Jun 21 2007 02:21 am

 > Actually, the Zip Chip is just a multi-chip package consisting of
 > exactly a 65C02, a crystal oscillator, an ASIC, and two SRAMs.

How hard would it be to recreate the ASIC and dupe and/or improve upon the Zip
Chip... for the purposes of cloning?

It has a fair amount of state inside, so reverse engineering it would
be a bear.

-michael

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