Re: If the Apple II was continued...

[aiiadict@gmail.com]

On Jan 24, 1:34 am, thingvol <thingvol at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> What do you think would have been the next Apple II if it was continued?
> Ok, enough of my dreams. What ideas do you have?

8bit Apple FPGA card..
20mhz 65816 running in 6502 mode
4096 megabytes of ram possible
2 Ramworks III bank select registers, the new one selects which 16mb
bank to select
user selectable aux/main ram setups (select specific Read AND
selectable Write areas)
user configurable video scanner to display video from different
addresses (or aux banks)
user configurable video modes (color depth, resolution, video data
buffer, vdb scan order)
vga output (and ntsc, for TV display)
a/d d/a on board..  1/8 phono jacks
programmable interrupt generator
Programmable character "ROM"
lightpen port, lightpen mouse emulation

CF interface
ethernet
hardware sprite controller from NES