[Coco] [color computer] Just imagining...

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault"
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:37 AM

> Reads like you were describing one of the current emulators. :)
>
> George Ramsower wrote:
>> I was just wondering..
>>
>>  These new programmable chips are so fast and powerful today, it's just 
>> amazing!
>>
>>  Could a really fast one be able to(with good, tight coding) monitor the 
>> CPU in a coco, understand what it was trying to do(such as in RS-BASIC) 
>> and produce the info to (for example) run a graphics card? This wouldn't 
>> be an issue with software if we were running RS-Basic on a coco.
>>  No COCO software required! The plug-in card with powerful chips could 
>> interpret and display what was intended for a TV without interfering with 
>> the COCO!
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 Yup! Something like that but designed into something that could plug into 
the VDG port of a real CC3 and do the following..

.........
  It would monitor all the pertinent lines on the 40 pin expansion slot, 
pretend it was a VDG, interpret the instructions, convert these into 
something that could be used on a modern monitor and put these new signals 
on the built-in connector, enabling us to plug in a modern monitor, or use 
it on a KVM switch.
 I would LOVE to put my coco into this same desk, but I've no room for two 
monitors.

 Imagine the coco with the PC keyboard adapter, this hypothetical video 
converter and a KVM switch, using /t2 and a comm port on the PC

 An "All-In-One" computing system

 Right now, my coco is in another room which is not good for serious 
computer play. So I use Hyperterm and /t2 to play on my coco.
 I wish I could bring the "Box" into the "nest" with this PC.

George