Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

[alex@frankendata.de (TheByteBooster)]

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message news:<chmuoh$pdl$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>...
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> > Hi Apply II community,
> >
> > I am currently "in the mood" of starting a lttle HW project for the
> > Apple II. Many years back I almost finsihed a graphic card based on
> > the HD6xxxx processor for the II but never got finsihed.
> >
> > How about a compact flash card interface for the II ? I know there is
> > an full blown IDE adapter available, but what the heck... Why not make
> > a little board which has space to plug in the CF directly and use it
> > as ProDOS og GS/OS HD ?
> >
> > What do you think ? Anyone who would be interessted in such a goodie ?
> >
> > I was wondering in I should design it for the "normal" slots or maybe
> > run it of the MemExp. (ROM access) of the IIGS ?
> >
> > Let me know.
> >
> > Alex - The ByteBooster
> 
> Hi Alex.  The Apple II compact flash card adapter already exists.  It's
> called the CFFA and the project page is here:
> http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
> 
> I recommend continuing with the graphics card.  There are lots of people who
> would line up to get either VGA output or clear 80 column text on a regular
> NTSC display using an RCA cable.

The thing is I have made that graphic card around the HD63484 ACRT
controller. At theat tome (1994) quite a nice graphic processort.
Unfortunatly it is no longer available. So I just looked around for
decent graphic processors, but nothing really except the ATI and
Nvidia which would be an overkill for an Apple.

> Cheers!
> Tim