On Aug 23, 3:39 pm, D Finnigan <dog_...@macgui.com> wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Alex Freed wrote:
Michael Kent wrote:
What PC platform? I must be completely confused, because I thought the
Carte Blanche was an Apple II card. If it's a PC card, then never mind.
Of course it is. However developing of the bit file that tells an FPGA
what to do can only be done on a modern computer with vast resources.
Say at least 1 GB of RAM, etc. So the configuration end up on a PC (or
a *NIX box). It appears easier to send it over via a wire to the CB
inside an Apple 2 than to transfer to the Apple media first and then
use the 6502 to transfer it to the FPGA. Or put on a memory card and
let CB copy it to its flash memory as we are now doing.
Even if no development is done and one uses a downloaded new
configuration it is likely to be a PC/Mac/whatever used for the
downloading. So the same logic applies.
Perhaps I'm unusual, but I doubt it--My Apple //e is in a different
room from my PC, and I like it that way!
Nope, you are not alone. My //e and IIgs are a room (a world) apart from
my Mac mini.
Perhaps one could fashion a Carte Blanche to update/configure another
Carte Blanch, or, in the words of C-3P0, "Machines making machines! How
perverse!"
One thing is, FPGA synthesis on an Apple II isn't exactly practical.
So, a PC would have to be involved somehow to generate your
personalities, at least. (And, by PC, I mean Wintel, although it could
be a Mac running Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion...)