Oh, I built a proof of concept kind of clone thing a long time ago already but haven't pursued it any further because availability of those Xilinx chips and the clock generator IC they used for the pixel clock is meh...
Indeed, that's what it does. Not sure why they choose to do that instead of properly driving the bus with actual bus drivers.
Oh!, I also suspect you already did it
. Of course you had a working prototype tucked away in a drawer somewhere!The video buffer?
Or even better, take the challenge like a new hardware design from the scratch.
That'd all but make it all but a Performer Plus I think? I'm wondering if the asynchronous handshaking section of that upgrade could be reversed? Grafting that section into the low end Performer would cure what ails it? That's no a full card clone , but a hybrid might do?
Possible... There are a lot of variables that are hidden until they become apparent though...
