Re: Crazy idea

[kevin@hackaday.com]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:01:59 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> Had a somehow crazy idea and would like to hear your thoughts:
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> How about running a Raspberry Pi in an Apple II (http://www.raspberrypi.org/)? May be on the back of an Apple II card?
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> - It could emulate an 6502 and you get a modern accelerator card (like a ZipChip)
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> - It could parse the USB and the SD card to the Apple II and it would be something like the awesome CFFA
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> - It could enable the Apple II to connect via HDMI to modern HD TVs
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> I guess you can think of a lot of more good applications.
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> Just an idea ...

PI is really bad at handling i/o on the gpio pins due to the OS, its a nightmare getting it to do spi or i2c at a reasonable reliability, I would hate to think about a 6502 emulator running at a Mhz unless your really keen on your arm asm and do it from bare metal up ... then its like rigging up a weedwacker to cut your hair when a pair of scissors (fpga) work better anyway