[Coco] Not quite a CoCo, but interesting!

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Fri Jan 18 18:24:45 EST 2008


At 08:30 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:

>Since I mentioned emulation on a small PC type computer, thought

>some of you would get a kick out of this:

>http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/bbcitxb/

>It's a BBC model B with a mini-itx board inside, running a hacked

>version of Linux that boots up with a screen similar to the old BBC

>computer! There's a link for a similar case hack using an old

>Commodore SX-64 (the portable version) also. The BBC-B is closer to

>a CoCo though. Of course it's not really an advanced version of the

>BBC-B, but with a customized emulator a mini-itx board inside a

>CoCo2/3 case could be a pseudo CoCo4!!??




I think that computer is supported by my Rainbow IDE, but I'm not
sure what the CPU type is (haven't looked) or what built-in cross
assembler would be used. If I had some source code to a BBC-B game
or demo I'd check it out.





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