[Coco] Done

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Aug 16, 2008, at 9:51 AM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:


> On 16 Aug 2008 at 7:36, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

>

>> Another poster mentioned that there are people on this list who don't

>> have the experience/time/resources to write software or contribute.

>> Those aren't the people I'm talking about.  I'm talking about the

>> comers and goers who have made big announcements and pronouncements  

>> of

>> what they were going to do, only to peter out in the end.   GCC for

>> the CoCo, replacement GIME, ethernet... I could go on and on.

>

> I can answer your GIME replacement point.

>

> it si still ongoing with lower priorities since there is already a  

> device that can convert the

> Coco RGB to VGA monitors. A much simpler approach that does not  

> require potential

> soldering skills from the end user. That was the main driving point  

> behind that FPGA GIME

> chip. Beisdes I took on the idea to learn VHDL and FPGA programming.  

> If the community

> still wants one then I can easily finish. Still the comm unity has a  

> lot of wishes but clear cut

> idea of what is needed first and what to prioritize. Until that  

> occurs, I do nothing.

>

> Besides I have only been working on that for about three years. The  

> superboard has been in

> development for over 6 yrs. Is is shipping yet? I am not doing my  

> work for profit or gain. I

> only offer my services to the community. If not wanted then no hard  

> feelings. I continue on

> with my hobby development for my personal needs.

>

> For the Coco4,  most seemed happy with it being an emmulated  

> software driven idea. I am

> a hardware engineer and my expertise in progamming software for  

> Linux and Windoze is

> not even beginers level. If hardware is needed I can offer my  

> services to anyone. But

> todevelope hardware one needs a clear and decisive path to follow.

>

> if all these appear to be excuses to y our then so be it. But my  

> time is pecious to me and I

> will work on my needs first unless there is commonality in my  

> personal needs and the Coco

> community in general.

>

> james

>

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