In article <7ri0809vvrif1rlq18hcvojo4kl3lkrerv@4ax.com>,
Chris M <chris@sorry.no.spam.com> wrote:
Whatever form, emulated or not, I am forever loyal, it's part of my
life, generation and part of me. :-)
Same here.. In my own ponderings, I would think that someone,
somewhere, somehow, would re-create the Apple //. Much like the Apple
I project, an Apple IIe machine could be reproduced - perhaps for a
reasonable amount. The trick will be using the Apple ROM images. But
I think Apple, Inc. would let that happen if the creator(s) paid
royalties. It's not as though it would be competing with their Mac
line in any way... so, why not?
The Apple II and II+ could be recreated for a reasonable amount,
since they used only standard IC's and full schematics were
published. So you'd just create a copy of the motherboard PCB and
then just connect everything there.
The Appe IIe is a different animal though: here Apple used some
custom IC's for the first time. So in order to successfully recreate
the Apple IIe, these custom IC's would have to be reverse engineered
and then recreated, either as new custom IC's or perhaps using
several standard IC's.