This is really exciting Really looking forward to possibly trying it out when ever it's ready to test.
Yes, I think we will start out at $125 for the first 100 or so units, then the price may have to increase to $150 for the subsequent units because of parts sourcing issues and additional cost related to design changes I need to make for the second revision. The current design is made from components we have stock of at GW which were destined for products which we canceled partway through development. So we can only make 100-125 of the current revision. After those first units are fabricated I will have to switch from legacy DRAM to more costly SRAM and that’s where the $25 price bump will come from.Very cool! Do you have a target price in mind for this?
-The 68HC000 is just a plain 68k clone right? Which means no built-in FPU, 32-bit compatibility, or MMU correct?
-Would the replacement ROM enable 800k SEs to use Superdrives/HD floppy drives? Or is that still run through the onboard ROM?
It would be easier to just slap on some kind of ready-made solution but that’s costly. Hence my very slow but cheap approach.Wow, I had no idea just getting USB to work was that involved on this thing!
Yeah, the good news is that the only windows specific stuff is just a few lines that use the Win32 API to twiddle the bits of the serial port. So no big deal porting. Plus you can also probably run it under WINE on macOS or Linux.only general concern would be if you based this around that one Windows API too closely which could lock out other platforms, or get deprecated and put us in a bad spot in the future.
I think it's a little unclear as well, and I imagine that if it's unclear here it'll only be worse when viewing on an actual board.My intent with this is to say that the left switch changes between 20/25 MHz, the middle one selects whether onboard or motherboard ROM is used, and then there's nothing for the right switch. Is this any good? It seems a little unclear but I dunno how to make it better.