Re: Apple clone on an FPGA, Video card project etc

[rg.jones@rogers.com]

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> http://rich12345.tripod.com/ultii/adaptor.jpg
>
> I cut up a disk II controller (good card to use, it has gold
> on every pin on the connector), pulled all the IC's,
> cut up an IDE CDROM drive and grabbed the IDE
> connector...
>
> bolted the two together,
> soldered wires on all the required pins on the II peripheral
> connector, routed them through level translators, to the
> IDE connector..  The Spartan3 board plugs right into
> the IDE connector (2 pins too many on the IDE, I stuck
> a Hard Drive jumper block on the extra pins)
>
> I've been playing with: counters, interrupt generator,
> transferring data back and forth between Spartan3 and
> the Apple II, video synch seperator/light gun interface.
>
> Rich

Thats a candidate for http://www.hackaday.com/ for sure!!

Nice goin - reduce - reuse -recyle ----

Glenn