13 hours ago, TheUnknownDad said:
That said, are there more people interested in doing so - and when is the design stable enough so that this interface card can be (at least physical) designed?
I try to join the facebook group but there is no answer yet.
I'd like to see first, if others have picked up this idea already and supporting them would be most effective. But nevertheless - being the Mr. Feature-Creep I am, what would you think should this card support?
My plan would be to integrate an ESP32 so there are lots of possibilies. Ideas comming to my mind:
Act as a modem (not RS/232)
having local storage for downloads
providing special transfer software
act as a cartridge so there is an easy way of accessing special transfer software (if this could be done with these cards - I don't see that from the "specs" so far)
Webbrowser proxy mode - do modifications so C64 can handle the site but special features still working
support modes for acting as a multiplayer gaming client AND server (offloading the TCP/IP-part of it)
provide API for multiplayer gaming
support download to (virtual) disk - especially normally attached (virtual) disk drives
open source design, software and hardware
target price of production: €25 (sorry, I'm german) for PCB and parts, self build kit
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(please add your features here)
From the few specs regarding expansion cards that I found so far, there are some questions arising:
Ok, we get memory mapped I/O with 32 Bytes, but...
can we actually implement banked ROM?
can we access system memory directly from the card?
...
So, who is up to this project?