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

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

> I would think that the speed achievable using FPGA with the RAM
> subsystem operating at the 'accelerated' speed would be more than
> adequate. I'd consider anything more than 16Mhz to be a bonus, because
> really, ALL Apple II software would absolutely scream at this speed,
> especially as it's a lot faster than any accelerator has ever achieved,
> and for the most part, nobody is going to write software that depends
> on the performance anyway.

One application would've been chess - at the time (20 years ago).

There actually was some talk about liquid cooled 6502's reaching 20 MHz
and more in a (naturally) custom-built chess computer, back then.

I've never seen one (or a photo), though, so it may be some king of
geek urban legend.

bye
Marcus