[Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or Next CoCo project that Bjork was heading?

[Mark McDougall]

On 22/10/2010 6:54 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> The current DE1 board is much smaller than even a small PC, but a
> little too large to fit inside a Coco case I think.  And of course as
> you mentioned there would need to be a screen.  As they technology
> gets smaller, cheaper, faster perhaps it could be done so that the
> FPGA board was in a coco case and the standard coco connectors were
> used, even the keyboard if desired.

Check out this board...
<http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug/pace/hardware/pace-p3m-scale.jpg>

It is _more_ powerful than a DE1!!! It's also 2-3 years old.

The only thing stopping me from porting Gary's Coco3FPGA to this thing is 
the LCD screen resolution (and orientation). But of course that's easily 
fixed by using a different LCD.

Regards,

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