Re: Blinking Light Apple II

["Vince Briel" <vbriel@removethisspamcamcast.net>]

If you like hex displays you must like KIM-1's.

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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Vince Briel wrote:
>> Yeah, I've been working on it for a while :) Still need to work on a few 
>> details. At the VCF people actually walked up to it thinking it was a 
>> real Altair! I need to work on the USB interface to the emulation. The 
>> front panel is using a microcontroller to emulate the front panel and 
>> actually emulate an 8800 with 256 bytes!
>>
>>
>> It would be really easy to make a circuit to just display the Address and 
>> data bus signals along with a few of the control signals like R/W, IRQ, 
>> NMI, etc. A few latches and some leds is all that is needed. I would 
>> think a small control card along with a seperate panel would do the 
>> trick. Connected with a ribbon cable and let the data flow!
>>
>> I can do 3 prototype boards for $100 but I can panelize boards and put 2 
>> boards on one and cut them seperately. I need to work on some other stuff 
>> first but it would be fun to have a panel for the apple II. I'd actually 
>> like to make it control the Apple like the Altair does. Examine/program 
>> memory locations, etc. That would be cool. To many ideas, not enough time 
>> :(
>
> I'd be delighted to have one of these--though I must admit that if
> it had a hex display, I'd like it even better.  ;-)
>
> -michael
>
> Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
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