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Re: Apple IIe transwarp or Zip chip clones?



On 01/14/2013 04:29 PM, Alex Freed wrote:
On 1/14/2013 2:04 AM, chausenbo@googlemail.com wrote:

Just a question: Could a ZipChip clone based on the Carte Blanche exceed
significantly the 8Mhz of the ZipChip?


You bet. I did run the soft 6502 at 25 MHz. There is also enough fast memory
on the CB to shadow the whole A2 memory space. The problem is that to write
data back to the main on-board memory or the memory space on the slot cards it
will still take slowing down to 1 MHz.

Of course the CB has more than enough gates to clone the whole A2 with all the
peripherals: video and "disk" from MMC/SD is already done. But then it will be
just a faster second computer rather than an accelerator. Kind of like running
an emulator on a modern PC.

That's only slightly beyond what the original Transwarp did. It had its own 128k of memory and basically duplicated everything but the I/O.