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The apple 2e community has one
« on: July 05, 2014, 07:21:25 PM »
This is sort of what I was getting at in the other thread.  There's a doo-dad that allows them to plug a Raspberry Pi into an Apple 2e to add features.

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Re: The apple 2e community has one
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2014, 04:52:52 PM »
Quote from: Boot_WB;768334
A Raspberry Pi running Linux with an Apple II as a dongle providing i/o and storage?
I thought at first they were adding the Pi in as a resource under Mac OS (a smart expansion card/video card f.ex).

Worth some geek points for sure, but I wouldn't be interested in (for example) an A600 as a dumb i/o device attached to a Pi running Linux.


I agree.  After I posted the OP, I read further.  And that looks like all it is.  It appears to just turn the Apple into a dumb terminal that accesses an emulator.  The little cart they put between the Pi and the Apple 2e slot appears to just be a serial port.  We can do almost the same thing with a keyrah through USB.  

I was thinking more like drivers on both sides of the connection making the ethernet, memory, usb, and sdcard look like a board plugged into a zorro slot, and maybe even, assuming there's enough bandwidth on that connector on the Pi (probably not), software emulation for a faster 68k on the Pi.  That's different from running an emulator and pretending.