This is great news! I was hoping things would go in this direction, it could probably replace my aging 2000. As much as I thought the project was very cool, for me playing games was only half the fun of my old system - if I could fire up devpac and a couple of other goodies and play I would buy one in a heartbeat.
Hopefully this bit 'o kit will eventually be incorporated into a buyable product - my soldering skills are OK.. but I wouldn't trust them enough for the ram soldering.
I realise that space on the board is limited - but I was thinking wouldn't it be possible to put some kind of socketed ram board off the main (a la kickstart switchers)?
eh, what do I know? I'm a software guy