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Worth mentioning, you can buy small-run, newly-manufactured Apple II Z80 cards now in the 16-20MHz range (way faster than the host system), some even have a TMS
by justanother 5y ago
Worth mentioning, you can buy small-run, newly-manufactured Apple II Z80 cards now in the 16-20MHz range (way faster than the host system), some even have a TMS9918 VDP chip for compatibility with MSX-1/Colecovision/SG1000 stuff.
- rbanffy 5y agoNever suspected there are current Z80 cards with a VDP. Need to find one. Here they have an up to 20 MHz z80 card (and other Apple II stuff): https://www.tindie.com/products/gglabs/gz80-turbo-cpm-softcard-z80-for-apple-iie-iigs/ https://www.tindie.com/products/gglabs/gz80-turbo-cpm-softca... This has a VDP: http://www.apple2.net/ http://www.apple2.net/ With an MSX2 VDP, it’d have 80 columns as well.
- justanother 5y agoYeah, Ian's cards are the ones I was thinking of. There's an APMSX available on eBay, it introduced me to MSX gaming (and some colecovision and SG1000 conversions).
- rbanffy 5y agoI think MSX-DOS can run CP/M binaries natively. Still, an MSX2 card for the Apple II, even if it’d be the über Z80 card, feels like heresy…