[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> On 2/6/2014 11:56 AM, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu wrote:
>>> On 6/02/2014 2:54 AM, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Someone else mentioned a TRS-80 core as well.  Anybody here know
>>>> anything about that?
>>> Yes, that's mine (Model I). Has support for a few hires boards, and
>>> LNW-80
>>> mode is WIP.
>>>
>>> It uses the SD card for an IDE drive using Peter Bartlett's ROM
>>> extensions
>>> and LDOS patches. You can load up spftware via emulators and then write
>>> the
>>> image to CD.
>>>
>>> Only issue atm is that the SD is read-only in the DE-1. I'm using my
>>> colleague's SD core and he hasn't added write support. I need to hassle
>>> him
>>> about it again!
>>>
>>> After you get your board and have played around with Coco3FPGA to
>>> become
>>> acquainted with it, hit me up and I'll send you some files.
>>>
>> I may have to ask you about that sooner rather than later.
>>
>> I hadn't hear anything about my request to join the Yahoo group so
>> I went back to take a look.  there hasn't been any activity there
>> since the beginning of January and that was just two messages.  Is
>> there any other way to get the COCO3FPGA core?
>>

Well, my DE-1 is sitting on the porch waiting for me.  :-)  Not a
peep out of Yahoo and I have had someone else tell me they seem to
have lost their access, too.  Not looking promising.  Wonder if there
is anything worthwhile over on OpenCores.  (Just joking, I was getting
this for a few specific systems and it now looks like the PDP-11 is
going to be the only one.)

bill