[Coco] CoCo3 accelerator add-on

[Bill Gunshannon]

> On 28/04/2013 9:37 PM, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
>
>> I am not sure if anyone has thought about this or brought it up, but
>> over
>> in the Amiga land, a "new" VGA card called the Indivision (AGA for the
>> "newer" chipset, OCS/ECS for the original) exists.
>
> The Indivision is really an enhanced "flicker-fixer" for the Amiga. It
> replaces the chip that is responsible for fetching pixel data and
> rendering
> video on the monitor. The Indivision has a few extra bells and whistles
> thrown in, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it a "new video card".
>
> There was talk of replacing the GIME on the Coco and IIRC someone here was
> playing around with exactly that. But this topic has been discussed to
> death
> on several occasions, most notably in the "Coco 4" threads.
>

I'm new to most of these discussions and just throwing this out for
consideration.  Why not just develop an alternative graphics system
that could be plugged into a cartridge slot?  Beyond my ability but
based on some of the discussions I see here certainly not beyond the
capabilities of some of you.

bill

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