[Coco] Coco1/2 & TRS-80 Model I FPGA

[Nick Marentes]

Hi Mark,

I've looked at your CoCo FPGA and it seems to work well. Did you use the 
same 6809 core as Gary's CoCo3FPGA?

I wish I knew VHDL so I can understand your code.   :(

Will try your TRS-80 FPGA but have been trying to get my CoCo3FPGA 
linked with Drivewire. I have a laptop running the Drivewire server, I 
connected a USB-to-Serial adaptor to my laptop (which doesn't have 
serial) and it appears to work, all I need is a null modem adapter to 
connect it to the DE1 board to run Drivewire. Is that right?

I've ordered a Null modem adaptor off Ebay but it hasn't arrived yet.

Also, I've been posting on the CoCo3FPGA but Gary (or anyone) doesn't 
seem to be answering or accessing it.

Do you have Gary's e-mail?

Nick

On 25/02/2014 6:55 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a reminder - the original message was buried in a Model I thread 
> - that my Coco1/2 FPGA implementation for the DE1 - like the Model I - 
> is now available. Both implementations have read-only HDD support 
> (HDBDOS and Peter Bartlett's ROM extensions & LDOS respectively) via 
> SD card, and I've uploaded sample images for playing around with here:
>
> <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug/pace/so/de1/>
>
> To reiterate, they're perhaps not overly useful as a general 
> replacements for The Real Thing just yet, due to a lack of floppy 
> support or HDD write support, but I've offered them for curious cats.
>
> I've been asked by a few for the source. It can be found in the SVN 
> repository of my PACE project. There is a web site for the project - 
> <http://pacedev.net/> but the forums have been broken for a few months 
> and my partner-in-crime is yet to fix it. But last I knew you can at 
> least peruse the messages already posted.
>
> In any event, the source for all the projects can be found here:
>
> <https://svn.pacedev.net/repos/pace/>
>
> I'm not actively maintaining them atm, but feel free to report any 
> issues and/or send me your comments/suggestions and you never know...
>
> Regards,
>