Re: 20 MHz 65816

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

barana <barana24@telstra.com> wrote in message
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> how about this idea c-one mboard  with a "GS" card in the co-processor
> slot with smartport,joyport and printer&modem ports , any custom chips
> and any thing else provide drivers for the new devices.That way we get
> vga monitors, 100 mhz bus,ide hd's and cdroms internal modem/ethernet
> cards 1.44 3.5's all in one - no cludges maybe we could reprogram the
> fpga's to be dsp's (quicktime on the GS!) or reprogram the fpga's to
> handle cd-rs cdrw's and dvd's (udf) (and maybe later on an enhanced os
> to handle more than 8 MB (up to 1 gig) !!!!

The C-one has two slots, one of which could conceivably take a GS
compatibility card to support smartport and printer/modem ports.  I think
the least painful approach would be to configure the FPGA to map GS I/O
addresses to hardware and make a separate card that adds generic USB
peripheral compatibility to the C-one.

That said, I haven't seen anyone offering IDE hard drives, CDROMS, ethernet
cards, or 1.44 meg 3.5" disk drives that support the C-one yet (emphasis on
the word "yet").  I expect that such things *must* be in the works, or the
C-one will have a very short market window.

- Mike