[Coco] CoCo3 accelerator add-on

[Cba]

Exactly what I was thinking, replace the Gime with dedicated fpga, would salve the video "bottleneck" and the lurking obseleteness of the Gime chip. sorry if I spelled this wrong. but I presume you all know what  I mean. I noticed that there are very clever cocoists outthere, who surely can come up with something.

just a thought thoug.

Cba

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

>
>> 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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