>Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>> If you were going to do this, wouldn't it make sense to
>> add a PC parallel port to the thing and get rid of the
>> display altogether? Or, you could squish the whole thing
>> down to fit on an ISA card with a 40 pin cable coming
>> off of it...
OK. See the light. If you could buy a catbox right now, i.e., they were
readily available and not too expensive, you would probably get one, eh?
I think it is not a good idea to "redesign" the catbox to a different
beast, making it ISA, serial, or PCI, whatever. If the consensus is "we
want a more powerful catbox", then actually what people are saying is "we
want an ICE". Really that is what we should focus on if it is what people
want.
So I propose two scenarios:
1. The catbox "dupe". No new features of any kind.
2. A complete redesign. Not just a catbox "improvement". Here I think
that an ICE would be the best. Anyone willing to help architect this?
It could go as far as being customized to ICE the favorite game
processors -- 6502, 6809, Z80, etc.
John R: that Apple II thingy sounds very interesting! I would love to see
what that is all about. I would definitely dedicate my old Apple II to be
used as a game diagnostics tool, if I had the hardware/software you were
talking about.
-Anders
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