[Coco] Off Topic but neato "Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer causes big stir on launch day"

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 03:29:56 PM Boisy G. Pitre did opine:


> On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:

> > Ok Steve (Bjork)... you went there... now I will too... :-)

> > Over the past years, I watched many, many disscussions of a "Coco 4"

> > take place. As Steve said, there are those who say anything else is

> > just an emulation... First I have to say this... The Color Computer 3

> > was NOT a Color Computer 2. It was (for the most part) basically just

> > an emulation of the Coco 2... and a VERY bad one at that!! 50% or

> > more of the Coco 2 software would NOT run unmodified on a Coco 3.They

> > had different graphics, different memory, different chips, and for

> > the most part, different capabilities. That's why they called it The

> > Coco "3"...  and not a "Coco 2.2" or "Coco 2A". A step forward. If

> > we, as the Coco Community, want to ever see a progression of the

> > Coco, it WILL be in emulation. That is as far as the Coco 3 part

> > goes. <TIC> "Nitro Color Computer 4: 10 Core Pentainium 240bit

> > 500ghz, 99 giggabytes SDDR 25 Ram, 1,000,000x1,000,000 graphics

> > resolution supporting up to 100,000,000 colors, up to 25x100

> > terrabyte solidstate HDs (only while running NitroglySO9 v6809.0.E),

> > 12xSFUSB (SuperFirey USB) ports, 4xSRS 10.1 Sound cards for

> > Multi-Track recording, Super ComposoRGB TV output (for large

> > flatscreen monitors and Drive-in movie theaters) , built in 10 port

> > network card supporting Drivewire99... and the list goes on... Just

> > type <MODE=Coco3> and full Coco 3 emulation starts wth 110% backwards

> > compatibility!! Type <MODE=Coco2> and your whole system crashes while

> > running Zaxxon :-) Tandy Joystick port card $20 each (CocoMouse

> > driver required), joysticks not included. All on 4 linked & hotrodded

> > FPGAs. All Parts available from Tandy National Parts (in kit form

> > only, soldering required) I (for one) would download the source from

> > MiroSourceforge.commie (nighty builds in Assfault.wad form

> > availlable) and compile it in my Super-Extended-Visual Basic09

> > Studio...

> 

> Bill,

> 

> This sounds more like a CoCo 3*10^9. :)

> 

> Hey, do whatever your heart desires.  Make your own dream "CoCo 4"

> however you see fit.  If you want other people to buy into your idea,

> then try to sell it.  If it doesn't sell, then either retool your idea,

> or abandon the idea of selling it.

> 

> I personally don't see a Pentium running a CoCo emulator as anything

> near a CoCo 3 or 4 or whatever.  That's my view.  I would not shell out

> money to buy one.  Again, that's MY view.

> 

> So what would *I* buy?  Anything that has a 6809 on it, or an FPGA that

> can be configured to have a 6809 core on it.

> 

> I know there are others who aren't aligned to my view, and that's ok.

> 

And I would probably buy that FPGA whose instruction translator included 
the 6309 bits.  The 63C09 is what the coco3 should have had in it, and mine 
does.

Another $0.02... :)

Cheers, Gene
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