I was reminded of the Janus ISA card that contained a 68000, some RAM, and an MFP on a 16 bit ISA card. The card made it possible to run TOS using a 386 PC as a host providing graphics and input.
http://www.stcarchiv.de/stc1994/11/janus-atari-emulator
From a quick glance at images of the board it looks to me the supporting logic is mostly built out of 74xx series chips (plus 4 GALs). Could this be a good start for a modern remake of the board? Does anyone have high rez images of both sides of the board or even schematics? I looked at the library section of this forum and dev-docs.org, but could only locate installation manuals.
Edit: The DMA I originally assumed was there was actually a MC68901 MFP
Edit 2: Counted the number of GALs to 4
Janus Atari ST Emulator
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Re: Janus Atari ST Emulator
I'm guessing (And I could be wrong here) that the DMA is not present because the hard drive and floppy access is handled by the PC and whatever software runs on the PC.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
Re: Janus Atari ST Emulator
I was wondering about if such a thing existed a few days ago. We know there are PC cards for Atari/Amiga but never the other way around.