Re: RFC : SOME IDEAS FOR THE APPLE II FPGA'ers

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

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> Actually, Matt, I suspect that we are in fundamental agreement about
> what we want and why we want it.  The only thing we may not be fully
> aligned on is what we think will happen to satisfy our needs.

Agreed, and though we might each be satisfied with more or less on
particular features, I feel that the actual *thing* that needs to be
created in order to satisfy our needs is more or less the same, or at
least close enough that both our desires can be satisfied by a, I
think, 'relatively' straightforward end product.

I guess I feel that the way forward is to come up with a conceptual
piece of hardware that *potentially* does what everyone wants, but at a
minimum, initially replaces an Apple IIe motherboard. My reasons are,
most of the IP core necessary to do this has already been done (as long
as some of the guys out there that have actually done this are
willing/able to share), and that as long as future desires that have
already been born out through this discussion aren't closed off by the
design, which they needn't be, given a bit of forethought, then we
actually end up a lot better off than we are now; we have something.
People can use it, and will have the very environment necessary to make
some of the more exotic ideas reality rather than just theory.

Matt