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Re: New hardware project

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Terence Boldt wrote:
> 
> Planned functionality:
> 1. Hard drive emulation (mostly working already)
> 2. Real time clock for ProDOS
> 3. Terminal access to the Raspberry Pi
> 4. Web service calls from the Apple II
> 5. Possibly execute graphical applications on the RPi and render Apple II
> compatible graphics, sending them to the II for display
> 
> https://github.com/tjboldt/Apple2-IO-RPi
>

I think that an IO board is a really great concept for Apple II! This is
like taking the CFFA or MicroDrive cards for storage, and extending the idea
so that there are more possibilities for IO.

I like the idea of having a multi-access file store that's backed by some
Linux/Mac OS X machine where the modern OS can access the files in its
native format, and the Apple II can also access these files via what appears
to be a ProDOS volume-- all coordinated by your IO card.

On the PC/Mac side, you can drop in a file and it just appears on the ProDOS
volume. Or from the Apple II side, you've saved a file, and you can drag it
out onto your desktop, or just open it in your editor on the PC/Mac.

-- 
]DF$
The New Apple II User's Guide:
https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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