[Coco] CoCo-X project

Fedor Steeman petrander at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 09:33:22 EDT 2013


BTW here is the link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/854038380/coco-x-the-next-generation-of-tandy-color-computer



On 18 April 2013 15:32, Fedor Steeman <petrander at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Gary Becker's CoCo-X project, as based on the great FPGA design work done
> by several people, looks really promising as a replacement CoCo or even as
> a form of "CoCo 4". However, there aren't many backers yet and the closing
> data is coming soon.
>
> How do people feel about this possibility? Is it too expensive? Would more
> graphics mode be enticing? It already supports a 256 color mode and
> clockings speeds to a whopping 20 MHz.
>
> There has been a lot of talk of a CoCo 4 and this is the closest thing
> yet. So I would expect a lot more people to be interested that is mirrored
> by the present number of backers.
>
> Even if the project i not going to make it I would implore Gary Becker not
> to give up and give it another try later on. Or perhaps find ways to make
> the CoCo-X even more attractive.
>
> Kind regards,
> Fedor Steeman
>
>



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