@DosFox clone aficionado! I found a cool thing you might like.
Have a look at page 78 here: https://win.adrirobot.it/nuova_elettronica/pdf/nuova-elettronica-104-105.pdf

I went to buy food for my cats and came home with a paper copy of this old magazine, and there is a kit of an (allegedly) Apple IIe compatible clone described. Complete with schematics, pity the thing uses PROMs/PALs and of course those are not described in the article.

Would be so cool to find one and clone the clone...

@hkz woah that's definitely piqued my interest!

I'll dig into that when I have the chance

@DosFox I doubt I'll ever run into one in the wild. The cost for that thing in kit form was considerable.

Still, sometimes Nuova Elettronica kits pop up at fairs, so I'll keep an eye out just in case.

@hkz those schematics are absolutely gorgeous though.

Shame that the ROMs/PROMs are likely lost to time

@hkz it reminds me that the Franklin Ace 2000s were iie compatible machines that were made entirely out of TTL parts and a few PALs.

The schematics are online, not sure about the ROMs and PALs

@DosFox Wouldn't surprise me if this is actually a clone of the Franklins.
@hkz that would also be unsurprising 😅