Re: TransWarpGS Clone Preorders open!

[Conrad <conrad.russo@gmail.com>]

I'm kind of a little upset that you didn't do a bit more research before making such thinly-veiled accusations of fraud... There is exactly 0 custom chips on the TransWarpGS. The entire thing is off the shelf 74xx series ICs with the exception of the SRAM and EPROM on the cache card and the GALs (Lattice brand reprogrammable Simple Programmable Logic Devices, GAL16V8 and GAL20V8 series) and FPGA (Xilinx XC2064 Field Programmable Gate Array, as a side note the first such device on the commercial market, in this case running at a minimum speed of 50MHz) as Jonas already mentioned. And as Jonas has also mentioned, the sources for both are available readily, the bitstream for the FPGA is in the TWGS ROM and the JEDEC (and ABEL) files for all the GALs are available all over the net. If you had bothered to read the other thread I made when I started this project this would all be known to you. Perhaps you are thinking of the ZipGSX, which does indeed have an ASIC on it and as such was written off by myself as unfeasable to clone at this time. If you had bothered to read the other thread you would also know that I am doing this for the good of the community and to build my reputation as a hardware producer in the classic computing community, so I take your attack on my product personally. You're welcome to wait for high resolution scans of my clone, but maybe in the meantime you could brush up on Apple 2 hardware before making anymore completely baseless accusations. No I don't have any idea if you know a thing about hardware or not but I'll just take a page from your book and assume the absolute worst since I don't know any better...