Re: TransWarpGS Clone

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

@Steven: You have much more experience with ASICs then I do and I appologize for my misunderstanding. I read over the WDC site again and saw that they do in fact offer an '816 FPGA core. So that could work for us, but again its a long way off. You are right that pirating such tools would be completely useless as any products produced with such pirated tools would be forbidden fruit. Either way its all just conjecture right now.

@JV: Yes that is the CPU that will be used on this card (the PLCC version) and could also be used to replace the cpu of a stock IIGS (the DIP version) although it would offer no speed increase on its own. I am aware that its still available and I will be acquiring the CPUs I need from WDC or a distributor. The problem with these CPUs is that they officially top out at 14MHz, although you can push them a bit faster then that. If we wanted to make for example a 40MHz TWGS we would need an alternative. That is why we were discussing an RTL implementation of the CPU.

@Erik: Excellent! Please email me with your shipping address, how many cards you want, how you will pay, and what oscillator you want installed. You can reach me at conrad.russo<nospamnospam>gmail.com. Replace <nospamnospam> with @.