Re: [Vaporware alert!] Portable Apple II Clone Concept

["Simon D. Williams" <email@ld8.org>]

ziggy wrote:
> In article <1147466318.452843.43440@d71g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
>  "Simon D. Williams" <email@ld8.org> wrote:
>
> > The recent heated debate about FPGAs got me thinking about what  a
> > modern Apple II should look like and what functionality should be
> > included... I guess that makes me more Jobsian than Woznian, but that's
> > life.
> >
> > Anyway, it's here:
> > http://www.ld8.org/go2/
> >
> > I wasn't necessarily thinking about what I'd _really_ like to see, as
> > much as what I though might be feasible given the small market size and
> > hobbyist nature of anyone interested in such a thing. I think it would
> > be fairly useable while travelling etc, and small scale production
> > would be at least plausible...
> >
> > Remember, it's just for fun!
> >
> > -s
>
> Depends on what you really want to accomplish..  If you just want to run
> Apple][ stuff on the road, an emulator on a regular laptop makes more
> sense..
>
> But If you want to have a *real* apple][...

Emulators are pretty good these days, but you have to have a pretty
decent laptop. The downside of emulators is that modern hardware
doesn't interface easily with legacy stuff.