Thanks for the information Gorgonops. I'm going to mull this over a bit. I'll be picking up a mixed lot of 20 compacts in the 512ke/Plus vintage tomorrow and will try experimenting with software for that era of machines. System6 changed a lot of the interfaces and possibilities, and I'll have to mess around and get a feel for what subset is available on earlier OS', ROMs, and address spaces.

I've eyed some CPLD dev boards and whatnot, the problem I have is assuming I make the time investment and come up with some workable hardware, the project basically dies at the layout stage, which is where I stop. Playing around with a development system is fun and all, but from a practical perspective it's not that useful if it is inaccessible to others. If we could use the Amiga guys' hardware and just reprogram the CPLD, that'd be pretty good I think.