@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
@DosFox From an italian newsgroup, one guy mentioned he checked the ROMs and found them to be almost identical to original IIe ones. The PROMs/PALs on the other hand, he did say he was able to copy 5 of 7, but the last 2 were registered.
And all this was 17 years ago. You know what, I'll ask him anyway.
@hkz may as well!
Reminds me I need to message that guy with a prototype Macintosh ii
@DosFox Wat.
The guy answered already. Sent me the JEDs and the ROM dumps.
But he actually sent me 7 JEDs, not 5. I'm asking him if he was able to reverse the remaining ones during these 17 years.
Because, if he did, I have a IIe clone to build here.
hkz
DosFox