Re: Hardware musings

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> The only thing you can really eliminate is the boot ROM.  The software
> will still have to run the 2MHz state machine and communicate with the
> PC to dump off nibble streams (that the PC could decode/encode with its
> own RWTS.  Essentially every function that exists in the Apple must be
> provided--except the boot ROM.

Just sampling the read line with a 2MHz (or rather 2,040969MHz) clock
should suffice, shouldn't it? You could then run the state machine in
software on the PC side -- leisurely after-the-fact. The same goes for
writing: you'd run the state machine in software first, then write a
whole track at once, directly from the bit-buffer.

That would be more of a "USB Catweasel" (Mouseweasel?) approach.

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Linards Ticmanis