[Coco] MCC-216

[Mark McDougall]

On 3/01/2013 1:19 PM, Bill Loguidice wrote:

> Her name is Jeri Ellsworth. She continues to hack things and works for
> Valve now. She's very easy to track down, very public, but I seriously
> doubt she'd have any interest or time. 

Whilst Jeri did the original design, she had little to do with the
commercialisation of the project other than adapt it from an FPGA to an
ASIC; the impetus and (significant) capital injection was another party
altogether. You'd have to approach the likes of that party if you ever
wanted a Coco-in-a-joystick, not Jeri. And let's not forget that Gary (and
for that matter John's core) has already done what Jeri had effectively
done anyway.

I don't think anyone here is under any illusion that a Coco-in-a-joystick
is even remotely commercially viable in the way that the C64 version was.
The best we can hope is a hobbyist design that breaks even selling a few
dozen units to enthusiasts who can afford it. Anything beyond that is, and
always will be, a pipe dream.

Regards,

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