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New Apple II hardware - Carte Blanche
This site: http://www.applelogic.org/CARTEBLANCHE.html is tracking the production of a brand new and VERY new card for the old Apple // line. The description there is a little complex so I'm going to break it down (poorly, forgive the simplifications) so that more of us can grok just what it means.
Carte Blanche uses an FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array - to emulate any number of older and some newer (and not yet thought of ) peripherals for Apple // //e //gs and /// (//gs and /// support pending some testing). This allows this hardware to replicate the function of things like SCSI cards, disk drives, even VGA adapters for the Apple //. This is amazing stuff and I don't think any of us have any idea the awesome things we could use it for to make our old toys even more neato.
Check it out!
Carte Blanche uses an FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array - to emulate any number of older and some newer (and not yet thought of ) peripherals for Apple // //e //gs and /// (//gs and /// support pending some testing). This allows this hardware to replicate the function of things like SCSI cards, disk drives, even VGA adapters for the Apple //. This is amazing stuff and I don't think any of us have any idea the awesome things we could use it for to make our old toys even more neato.
Check it out!
Tags: adapter, apple//, carteblanche, fpga, hardware
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