[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[Mark Marlette]

At 12:36 PM 12/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:

Eric,

I truly understand your point. The emulators are getting better but still 
don't fully emulate a CoCo3.

Everyone enjoy this wonderful machine, the fun of it, in what ever it's form.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9


>Mark,
>Thank you for your reply! I understand that there is already
>some excellent hardware and software for "real COCO,s" but if
>I wanted to really build a super expanded COCO I would not
>use a true coco at all. Instead I would run a coco emulator
>which would give me the use of all the natives systems
>periferal devices. I could then have hard drives,floppies,CD-
>roms or whatever and run at whatever speed my native machine
>would do. For my interests the real beauty of the coco is
>that it is a full computer with video,keyboard etc. in a
>small size. The SAM chip was an excellent product for it,s
>time because it tied together the VDU,DRAM,CPU,roms and I/O
>using an "Interleaved DMA" allowing the cpu access to all
>memory at any time without it(the CPU) having to worry about
>refreshing ram and accessing video memory only during video
>retrace or non refresh times. Of course the SAM,s later
>cousin the GIME also did this.
>
>If I truly wanted to operate a COCO I do have a coco1,several
>coco2,s and a 512k coco3. My interests are a bit different
>though. Thank you from all of us coco,ist for all of your
>fine work in keeping this machinge going in this modern age.
>
>Eric
>
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