Re: Carte Blanche

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 17, 9:46 am, alex.freed....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 16, 4:28 pm, "Garberstreet Electronics" <willy4...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Ok, let me understand this. Now I will have Alex's Z80
> > replica, AND, will also have one I can make the CB card
> > into?   KOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I gotta have a Carte Blanche.
>
> The z80 on Carte Blanche is not a very practical design as the "real"
> SoftCards and
> clones are plentiful on e-bay and only run at 2 MHz. So using my PCPI
> clone is more
> practical if your goal is to run CP/M on Apple. However this project
> is a very nice
> example of what is possible to do with the Carte Blanche including
> soft co-processors,
> interface to real CPUs, etc.
>
> The application that will be practical and will be pre-loaded into CBs
> is a (mostly done)
> VGA compatible video. I already have a fully functional version but it
> is using a pixel
> clock derived from genuine Apple timing - 14.28 MHZ that looks great
> on analog VGA
> but sucks on LCD monitors due to resampling. The new one rescans at 25
> MHz just
> right for VGA mode.

Brilliant!

> Anyway the CB is ready for production and we need to know how many to
> build. Let's
> start here. Who wants it?

Put me down for 2.

Matt