Apple II or Famicom?
Over the past 2 days, we’ve gotten a lot of blog coverage!
Engadget, Slashdot, Digg, ZDNet, Ars Technica
However, all this coverage is reporting that we are using Apple II technology. One blog goes so far to say:
“Apparently Apple II parts are flooding India and other developing countries and people are building make shift computers out of them.” MacMod
That would be amazing, if it were true. But it’s not. At all! 
So, for the record, we are using a machine that is based on the Nintendo Famicom (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U.S.), not the Apple II. However, the 6502 chip technology of both was very similar.
Eric Lai at Computer World wrote a great article that provides more clarity about our project. David Zeiler at the Baltimore Sun also clears this up.
Honestly, I think it was great that so much discussion took place on Slashdot, assuming that our project was based on the Apple II… Many loved the platform, but other’s suggested using C64 or a z80 instead… All should be open hardware platforms by this point, so it’s worth considering.