User:Xjmaas

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An Apple Enthousiast since 1983 when we first obtained a bare Apple II logic board for which we (me and my dad) created a custom case. At the top of my collection I had several Apple ]['s and ///'s, a whole bunch of interface cards, several ProFiles and meters of software. Unfortunately this has been given to others in the past.

Currently I have a few (obtained a few years back) IIgs's, 3 working //c's and a Macintosh Colour Classic.

Right now I am working at a school in The Netherlands as ICT Coordinator.

Projects

The Apple II is a renewed hobby of mine and I have set my self to the following projects

Apple ][ Slot connector symbol and footprints I designed for Kicad and Eagle

Status

active

Description

I created these as I started my first projects with designing some boards for the Apple

File(s)

(These are hosted from my own website)
kicad
Eagle

Apple ][ Multi Media Card (MMC) Mass Storage card


Status

active

Description

  • Board - Preliminary board design is done and a few bare boards have been ordered.
  • CPLD - CPLD implementation is incomplete, I still lack some knowledge of VHDL to get some basic signals to work. The CPLD I use, is the Xilinx XC9572XL, as that is a 3.3V CPLD, but with 5V tolerant inputs.
  • ROM - A basic ROM has been had working with a breadboard like environment.

    My goal is to create an expansion card which uses the Multi Media Card SPI interface, based on the SPI65/B by André Fachat
    (which in turn is a VHDL reimplementation of Daryl Rictor's 65SPI) as a (raw) mass storage device.

Current Issues

  • In an effort to minimize the count of components, I opted to include the chip select logic for the EEPROM into CPLD, there should be some room left. For this I have to develop some simple (sub)entities for the VHDL project. I didn't get it right for now, but I have included some reference designs (made in Kicad). These still have to be (re)written in VHDL

File(s)

Kicad Project
Xilinx ISE 14.7 Project

Apple Plotter pens replica

Status

On hold

Description

At the moment this project has halted as I am trying to understand how to make "shell-like" models/objects this small using the 3D-printers we have at our school.