Hi,

> Ooooh so it can be used as a FPGA project board as well ? ..

Yes it can load cores directly from a MMC cart. The two things we
have in mind for this are a standalone 1541 drive emulator (for use
with other 8 bit commodore computers) and a C64-in-a-cartridge.

> That'll
> be nice, my little EP1C board is interesting but although it has a
VGA
> connector on it I don't think it can generate a vga signal of the
> proper clock (seem to remmber you need a 25mhz clock and this only
has
> a 20mhz) .. like I said before .. i'm an FPGA newbie :-)

That is what PLLs are for.

> Will the Chameleon have any other I/O ports ? (apart from the
> obligatory clock port that a certain "invididual" crams onto every
> single peice of hardware he has a say in :-) .. or is this getting
> towards feature creep again ? :-)

It will have a IEC serial bus so you can connect a real diskdrive in
standalone mode. The same connector will be used when chameleon
behaves as a diskdrive to connect to a real VC20, C64 etc (or a
second standalone Chameleon ;-). Most likely it will also have a
stereo audio output.

Any other peripherals will need to be connected to the cartridge
connector or clockport. Development of adapter PCBs from cartridge
connector to port X, Y or Z are still topic of discussion within
Individual Computers. A logical one would be something with two
joystick ports on it. No concrete plans though.

>
> On another completely different topic ... what hapened to the A600
> accelerator ? hehehe

This should be done in private email. Please don't abuse this
mailing list. Thanks!

Peter

>
> Regards
>
> Mark