[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> Google for DE1 and/or altera and the names of various platforms (apple,
> amstrad, IBM PC, etc) seems to point to lots of options.

Options for what?  I have searched for FPGA options for the systems
I am interested in (and, like the CoCo they are all of very limited
interest) and found only the PDP-11.  And even that is not for a
model I would choose given other options.  But maybe I can learn
enough about it to modify it.

>
> I have access to the FPGA group, i suppose I can put the files somewhere
> else if nobody wakes up over there but I'm assuming there is some reason
> they aren't just posted publicly in the first place so don't want to go
> against the authors wishes.

With all the talk going on here this is really sad.  One of the
things I was interested in looking at was if the core could be
modified to run on other FPGA systems.  I have seen some as low
as $29.  Now I don't realistically feel you could run it on one
of those, but there may be something cheaper and bare bones that
works (I saw one where you get the base FPGA and add peripherals
as needed, one of which was VGA & PS/2).

Oh well, I am sure i can find some project that is just crying for
an FPGA solution so the board doesn't go to waste.  Maybe one of
my robots.

bill