Re: Update on Carte Blanche status.

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

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...)