Re: How does the ZIP chip work?

["Eric" <englere.geo@yahoo.com>]

Thanks much for the info! I didn't know it was that sophisticated. I
enjoy playing around with old computers, even though they're not at all
competitive by today's standards.

I'd like to see someone sell a modern version of an apple II, perhaps
implemented using an FPGA. This could be both compatible and very fast.
Gary Becker seems to have a cool project going along these lines:

http://www.applefritter.com/blog/12920

http://www.geocities.com/gary_L_becker/

To get around the ROM license issue it might make sense to make the ROM
images downloadable into RAM, and that way they don't have to
redistribute firmware code that Microsoft may not approve of.

Why doesn't Apple make something like this? It could even be very small
- possibly the same size as an IPOD, not counting the video display. A
small LCD video screen would also be cool - maybe the form factor of a
PocketPC...

Eric