[Coco] [COCO] Raspberry PI and CoCo Cart

[David Ladd]

One of the things I was thinking is with the cart side is having two
FIFO chips to buffer data between the Raspberry Pi and the CoCo.


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Brian <briang0671 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 09/28/2012 12:05 AM, David Ladd wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is a interesting idea I just had.
>>>
>>> What if we were to interface a Raspberry PI and have it connected to a
>>> CoCo cart so you could take advantage of the Boisy Interface/Becker
>>> port so that you could have faster access to drivewire 4 server?
>>>
>>
>> What is the Boisy Interface/Becker port?
>>
>
> This is a fifo buffer interface implemented initially in the CoCo3FPGA
> project and since ported to some emulators.  It allows DW to operate
> at very high speed/low cpu use compared to bitbanger on those
> platforms.  OS9 modules to support the interface are in the NitrOS9
> source.
>
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