[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[mmarlett at isd.net]

This has been done....The SuperBoard and SuperIDE cards have the FLASH option.
The keyboard....Even though it might be a good idea, it will only work with
a patched RSdos or NitrOS-9. Boisy has already done this for the up coming option
of the PS/2 port on the SuperBoard. The problem is that when you do not have
backwards compatibility all of the old software will not work. So unless you
aren't going to run old software and just the new CoCo software being produced
today, you will be frustrated. Even with patches to the RS routines yoou will
still have programmers that talked to the hardware directly. That is why we
selected the platform that we did.

???? Did that make sense??? The polling method is a burden for sure.

Regards,

Mark



>I for one would love to see a centralized site for COCO. Not 
>just for games though. If Nitros9 is free then where do I get 
>it? The coco all versions would make a great little 
>developement system. How about downgrading the basic roms to 
>just a BIOS Placed in a small Flashable prom,64k Static ram 
>using two 43256(32k x 8)chips,a serial keyboard that is NOT 
>an AT keyboard interface(COCO3 matrix keyboard with scanning 
>done by an encoder or a Pic processor sending serial scan 
>code to only the row I/O port,then change POLCAT to read 
>ASCII or other byte of key code). Making an AT keyboard 
>interface seems to me to be an excessive use of both hardware 
>and software just to have a lap keyboard that is transparent 
>to coco. Also perhaps an 8-bit ISA type slot or two. 
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