[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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