Re: I wonder if it would be complicated to design...

[osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:18:36 PM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2013, osgeld wrote:
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> > prodos block support is almost entirely software outside of connecting 
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> > the correct wires into the correct plugs (gah 8051, horrid turd of a 
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> > micro outside of its instruction set)
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> Heh.  He turned some sort of cheap Chinese 8052 into a Tandy 1000 (yeah, 
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> he ran x86 emulation on it). XD
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> How about a 65C02 with RAM and ROM, then?  That's what the Unidisk 3.5 
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> used.  xD  Or hell... what's the chip in the Arduino?  That might work?
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> ...I've never worked with microcontrollers.
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> -uso.

yea an avr like whats in an arduino is more than sufficient, that is what I am using for my virtual serial host, and it reads disk images from a fat32 sd card using basicly lego blocks and glue code all in GCC