Re: RFC : SOME IDEAS FOR THE APPLE II FPGA'ers

[bieling@terra.es (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> I understand you perfectly.  I'm just *still* wondering what it is
> that you think Apple II users are impatient waiting for...

I don't know what Apple II users are impatient waiting for. The thread
is a "Request For Comments" about some design ideas about an
hipothetical accelerator design. I'd like very much to hear other ideas.

> I've asked about half a dozen times in this thread, and no one has
> offered anything real that they would like to run faster than, say,
> 20MHz.

You wrote last month a basic program in csa2.programmer to draw circles.
I guess drawing circles is not of much use for you.
But you even took care to correct them for aspect ratio !
Drawing circles in AppleSoft Basic is useless !
Why did you do it ?

Because you were thinking about *the best way to do it*.
This is the same. 
What is the best way to accelerate an Apple II ?
If you had to do it, what would you do ? 
What would the others do ?
Can we discuss about it ?

> Even if the processor is *infinitely* fast, the system will still have
> to run animations at a visible speed (tied to the refresh rate), accept
> keystrokes at human speed, and access real disks at standard speed.
> See what I mean?

Yes, but "utility" does not matter.
If it did, I would not be writing here now and my Apple II would be in
the trash long time ago. 
I'm just trying to figure out what's the best way to accelerate it.
-- 
Jorge Chamorro Bieling