Re: Apple clone on an FPGA

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Rich,

    Thanks for the full explanation.

Bryan Parkoff

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> Bryan,
>
> FPGA is an apple II on a chip.
> The development board that Alex
> is using is "Digilent Spartan 3."
> This development board has a
> VGA port on it.
>
> Alex programmed the Spartan
> board to be an apple II (6502,
> video, sound, RAM, ROM).  The
> video is output through the VGA
> port on the Spartan.
>
> USB is used for file transfers.
> He can hook the spartan up to
> a PC with a USB cable.  THen
> he can download DSK images
> to the Spartan, and use these
> images on the Apple II that
> he programmed.
>
> Rich
>