[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:12 PM 12/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/27/03 12:26:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>rtaylor at bayou.com writes:
>
> > I really think embedded projects using old CoCo motherboards will be
> >  something we might all want to try one day.  Creating the ROM software
>with
> >  Portal-9 and getting Cloud-9 to burn the EPROMs might be the only way for
> > some.
>
>Yes, this is something I'd like to see supported.  Might want to make a MIDI
>switcher and organ-stop mapper out of one of my Coco2s.  --Mike K.


My own little idea I have up my sleeve is to interconnect 2 or 3 CoCo 
motherboards and have some
pretty smart software on ROM in each one.  8 or 16k ROM Paks can be 
inserted or perhaps the
32k ROM on board can be replaced.

Ways to connect the CoCo boards are endless.  You could do a serial link, a 
cassette audio port transfer,
or even simulate multiple serial ports by using the joystick button 
signals, although I would want to save
those for inputs.  That's 4 switch detectors without any hardware hacking, 
and 4 ADC lines.

A simple protocol can be used to talk between CoCo's to send command and 
status messages, just like
we talk to floppy controllers, speech/sound paks, or any other device.

Each board could have a totally different set of tasks, or each board could 
share the same tasks somehow to
get things done quicker.

I wouldn't dare strip down a CoCo 3.  An old 16k CoCo 2 would be 
perfect.  More memory will definately
not hurt, either.  :)


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Roger Taylor


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