[Coco] CoCo-X is not dead

[John Donaldson]

Question? With a FPGA why do we even need to emulate the GIMI chip. Why 
not make our own with enhanced features.

John Donaldson


On 4/29/2013 11:19 AM, Fedor Steeman wrote:
> Thank you, Gary, and keep on trying!
>
> Just some careful suggestions to make this more attractive still:
>   - Yet greater graphics possibilities? Shouldn't higher clock frequency
> make this possible?
>   - Is there room for multiple 6809 cores? Or unnecessary when working with
> 20 MHz anyway?
>
> I will be closely following your further initiatives!
>
> Cheers,
> Fedor Steeman
>
>
>
>
> On 27 April 2013 20:16, <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:
>
>> I suggest a new board for the current FPGA as a CoCo project more likely
>> to be supported. Something similar to the DE-1 but customized for the
>> CoCo, preferably to fit in the CoCo case. Would be nice if it could take a
>> CoCo or USB keyboard, and have CoCo style joystick ports. An expansion
>> header that could have an adapter made for a cartridge connector might be
>> nice, but I'd rather see built-in DriveWire support and/or a FDC emulator
>> that takes an SD card so .DSK files could be transferred to SD on a PC
>> then used on the "CoCo". Better graphics would be nice, but not necessary.
>> 2MB support would be good, and a real serial port.
>>
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