[Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?

[rondelvo]

why stop at 256 colors?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nickolas Marentes" <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:04 AM
Subject: [Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?



> Good work!!

>

> This opens the door to a REAL CoCo4 in actual hardware.

>

> My suggestion would be to aim towards a board replacement with a real 

> CoCo3.

>

> We would need to set realistic specifications for the CoCo4 upgrade and 

> make it a drop in replacement. A badge replacement on the top case that 

> replaces the "Tandy Color Computer 3" with one that says "Color Computer 

> 4" (take out the Tandy since they had nothing to do with it).

>

> I'd be happy with a CoCo3 that ran at 12Mhz and had a 256 color mode and 

> possibly support for an internal IDE.

>

> But with the flexibility of this FPGA board, we could add more.

>

> Nick

>

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