André Fachat's Ulti_PET is now at prototype status.
Snippets from his page :
The Micro-PET: a PCB that clones a Commodore PET, and adds modern features like SD-Card, USB, DAC audio, Network support, and colour VGA video output
The Micro-CPU: The CPU and modern tech part of the Micro-PET (SD-Card, USB, DAC audio, Network, VGA video) as CPU for the CS/A bus.
The Ulti-PET: a Micro-PET-based PCB with many many new features like Dual-SID, I2C, RS232 / TTL UARTs, fast serial IEC, Joysticks,, ...
- Ulti-PET features
- Commodore 3032 / 4032 / 8032 / 8296 with options menu to select at boot
- Boot-menu to select different PET versions to run
- 40 col character display
- 80 col character display
- 8296 memory map emulation
- IEEE488 interface (via PETIO (http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/petio/index.html) board)
- Tape connector (pin, via PETIO (http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/petio/index.html) board)
- PET graphics keyboard, or alternatively a C64 keyboard
- Improved system design:
- 512k video RAM, 512k fast RAM accessible using banks on the W65816 CPU
- boot from an SPI Flash ROM
- up to 17.5 MHz mode (via configuration register)
- VGA Colour video output (RGBI in 768x576)
- Write protection for the PET ROMs once copied to RAM
- lower 32k RAM mappable from all of the 512k fast RAM
- Improved Video output:
- Multiple colour modes (Colour-PET, C128-VDC-compatible, Multicolour)
- Colour Hires graphics mode
- Sprites
- Modifyable character set
- 40/80 column switchable character width
- Flexible timing, with up to 72 lines and 96 characters per line
- multiple video pages mappable to $8000 video mem address
- Audio output:
- PET beeper :-)
- DMA engine to play audio samples on stereo DAC sound output
- Dual-SID
- Audio mixer and small audio amp (Ulti-PET only)
- Extra I/O features on top (mostly Ulti-PET only)
- Colour-PET compatibility (as defined by Steve Gray's colour-PET project)
- RS232 interface
- Fast serial IEC bus (like in the C128)
- Both IEEE488 and IEC bus are capable of being used as device for another computer (ATNA capability)
- An extra 8-bit I/O port in addition to the Userport
- Simpler and more versatile system bus (using the Ultra-BUS (http://www.6502.org/users/andre/csa/ultrabus/index.html) backplane:
- CS/A bus (my standard)
- Some Apple-II bus compatibility
- RC2014 bus connectors
- Built-in Userport extensions, like Joystick ports
http://www.6502.org/users/andre/ultipet/index.html
Oh, I didn't know about the UltiPET. Thanks for the information.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan