[Coco] What if the next CoCo is made into a Tablet?

[Bill Loguidice]

Seriously, it's a lovely thought, just in no way practical. It would take
years for enthusiasts to engineer something like that and it would already
be out-of-date and severely overpriced. Take a look at the drama with the
Pandora handheld or any other hobbyist/enthusiast/semi-pro endeavor of
reasonable complexity and you see all kinds of issues. Heck, most companies
outside of Apple can't design a decent tablet, and they have huge R&D
budgets...

-Bill

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:04 PM, RJLCyberPunk <cyberpunk at prtc.net> wrote:

> Perhaps a custom made to order market for Enthusiasts then? I'd just like
> something I can order and pick out of the box and use right there after
> perhaps installing batteries.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Loguidice" <
> bill at armchairarcade.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] What if the next CoCo is made into a Tablet?
>
>
>  Honestly, I thought you were joking... There's zero market for something
>> so
>> prohibitively expensive to develop. A few hundred active enthusiasts do
>> not
>> justify a major product like that. You'd have a hard time doing something
>> like that based off a much more popular classic platform like the C-64,
>> Apple II or Atari 8-bit, let alone a platform like the CoCo that few
>> people
>> even recall.
>>
>> With that said, there's no reason the FPGA idea can't be extended to
>> existing properties and products, and certainly mature emulation
>> implementations would be ideal for tablets and smartphones, particularly
>> since bluetooth keyboards and to a lesser degree, bluetooth controllers,
>> are
>> common.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, RJLCyberPunk <cyberpunk at prtc.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I did ask if there are any entrepeneurs willing to try to do this for a
>>> reason, all I got is the idea, nothing more,I haven't got the resources
>>> to
>>> pull something like this but somebody or a group of entrepeneurs
>>> particularly in the FPGA CoCo project could potentially adopt it.
>>>
>>> I for one would love to unpack such a brand new CoCo and start playing
>>> with
>>> it right out of the box (After installing the batteries off course) :D
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com>
>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:09 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] What if the next CoCo is made into a Tablet?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Sounds like a plan!! Let us know when you have something to alpha test.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Other Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:09:58PM -0400, RJLCyberPunk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Seeing the new Tablets on the market and how revolutionary they are.
>>>>> Why
>>>>> not make the Next generation color computer a Tablet instead of relying
>>>>> on
>>>>> PC arquitecture? Could it be done with FPGA hardware and made into a
>>>>> machine
>>>>> that can be sold on the market? A lot of people have asked what makes a
>>>>> CoCo
>>>>> a CoCo. Well a CoCo has to be able to run CoCo software with no
>>>>> problems and
>>>>> has to have the feel of a real computer which an emulator while good it
>>>>> cannot bring and the Tablet design can bring that back in 21st century
>>>>> format but we should also move the CoCo into the next century
>>>>> softwarewise
>>>>> so it should have built in apllcations that run from an Eprom and can
>>>>> be
>>>>> updated through the internet such as Word processing, Worksheet etc and
>>>>> it
>>>>> goes without saying that it must be able to browse the internet as well
>>>>>
>>>>> To Recap:
>>>>>
>>>>> It should have at least a maximum resolution of 800x600 if not more.
>>>>>
>>>>> It should have complete backward compatibility with CoCo software.
>>>>>
>>>>> It should have built in applications including an enhanced version of
>>>>> BASIC with a compiler.
>>>>>
>>>>> It should be able to handle old cartridges in an adressable manner,
>>>>> safely without damaging the data bus which was a problem the CoCo had
>>>>> and
>>>>> shouldn't
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Online version of games like Ghana Bwana, Zaxxon you name it could be
>>>>> developed afterward. Imagine the rafe over such fresh new games that
>>>>> people
>>>>> can play online!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well what do you guys think? Any Entrepeneurs willing to take the CoCo
>>>>> to
>>>>> the next level once and for all? I know this the world needs a next
>>>>> generation Color Computer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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