Chip Hack workshop - An Introduction to FPGA Programming

[Chip Hack workshop - An Introduction to FPGA Programming]

I would like to, but I live in the states, and a plane ticket for a workshop is not in the budget

[Was the Mac LC what the Apple IIGS should have been]

from what I understand the GS was designed years before it came out, as someone else pointed out Jobs had a hate on for the apple II, and the GS would have just blown away a 128k mac, not in term of power, but in terms of most of your II stuff worked with it, it was mac like, and it had color so why buy a mac?

 

once Jobs is gone, Sculley was just keeping the ship on a mac course, then people started wondering about the future of the II line. Keep in mind that back then a computer would cost thousands of 1980's dollars, but you also had thousands more tied up in extra hardware and software (where a grade A word processor might run you 300+), so Sculley said "never fear", here is a new C (the IIC+) then dusted off the GS and said "you know you want that!" Though it was a bit too late, the second gen mac's were appearing, Atari's and Amiga's were much more powerful and the PC was starting to not suck.

 

I dont know how seriously they took it other than to appease the apple II people, which they ended up cutting off cold turkey in 92

[easy to use software for PCB layout and manufacturing]

if your not in a rush ...

 

Itead studio

http://imall.iteadstudio.com/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping.html

 

10, 10x10 cm for less than 30 bucks

 

for the prices and quantities listed by my co-forumer above you can get 3 day turns in your hand by the end of the week from almost any proto house

[Building PONG from scratch]

pong on a micro is quite easy, its another to do the whole thing in what amounts to a chain reaction of delays

[Apple Graphics & Arcade Game Design by Jeffrey Stanton]

I fail to see how its less acessable as it part of google groups

 

vs here where I spent a month thinking I needed to subscribe to a paid service, then 2 days of not being allowed to post, google groups seems friendly

[Atarisoft games for Apple II]

you can play choplifer, and most other games with just they keyboard, it kind of sucks though

[Apple Graphics & Arcade Game Design by Jeffrey Stanton]

I can't even FIND an Apple II community. I want to fiddle with this crap I have but don't really know where to go for information.

 

google fail

 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sys.apple2