[Coco] The Tri-Annual CoCo 4 Thread

[Nick Marentes]

On 16/02/2014 6:15 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 16/02/2014 6:46 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>
>> No! This is where it starts falling down!
>>
>> We start adding all these add-on's and then what do we have? A mish-mash
>> machine with no definite personality.
>>
>> The Word-Pak is just an add-on. What Gary has created so far is 
>> good... and
>> very CoCo'ish. All the old modes plus extensions of those modes.
>
> But Nick, IIRC this is exactly what you proposed some time back - a 
> cartridge add-on for sprites - is it not?
>
> Regards,
>

Refresh my RAM... IIRC?

An add-on cartridge for existing CoCo's is good. But how practical would 
it really be?

Such a cartridge requires a multipak to have it co-reside with Disk Basic.

And, it requires a second monitor. For some, that's too much deskspace 
to lose for something that there will be nothing more than a few demos 
of colors and sprites.

Let's see if it becomes an accepted reality in numbers before we tack it 
on to the CoCoFPGA.

The CoCo3FPGA is a different beast. It's a self contained (all on 1 
board) "Super CoCo" connected to a single monitor running at 20Mhz.

Anyway, it's Gary's call.

Nick