[Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 19/11/2010 3:03 PM, Luis Fernández wrote:
>
>> I have also a commodore 64
>> and acquired a joystick that had a commodore in a single chip
>> pc keyboard interface, floppy interface and / or think dd
>> commodore 64 30 games in one joystick
>
> I fully pimped mine out with all the expansion connectors! :)
>
> Of course with the economies of scale it could be sold at less than 1/10th
> the price of any potential Coco-On-A-Chip.
>
> There are also NES-On-A-Chip devices, not to mention other consoles, such as
> Atari 2600 & Genesis/Megadrive. I was disappointed to learn that the
> "Flashback" A2600 wasn't actually an emulation of an Atari 2600, but rather
> ports of the games to a generic 6502-based emulation. :(
>

An Amiga 500 in a joystick would be pretty nice, some really great
games on that system.  I've played with Minimig on the DE1 and it's
fun, but a simple device that plugs straight to a TV would be
convenient.

> Regards,
>
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