[Coco] The next coco3.....wish list

Sat Oct 4 18:35:38 EDT 2014

But an altera DE-1 is too expensive.

A board like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyclone-II-EP2C5T144-Minimum-System-Development-Board-/201070505640?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed0bc6ea8

Adding a daughter board composed of: SRAM, VGA connector, RCA for sound and
USB connector would be cheap to produce. We can even add coco real slot on
it by adding a buffer. Or it could be an extra board.

Then we could certainly have something around 50 dollars. maybe a little
more maybe littel less.

Luis Felipe Antoniosi

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On 5/10/2014 8:50 AM, Mark McDougall wrote:
>
>> On 4/10/2014 11:09 PM, Francis Swygert wrote:
>>
>>  Would be nice if someone would offer a programming service
>>> for the DE-1 board. I send you a board, you program and send me back a
>>> ready to go "CoCo4". Or sell the boards ready to go That's all some need,
>>> they just don't want to or can't program and set up the DE-1.
>>>
>>
>> It would take far longer for someone to package up a DE-1 for postage,
>> then go down to the post office and send it off, than learn how to program
>> it.
>>
>>
>
> Not to mention the periodic updates required as more features and bug
> fixes are introduced.
>
> Could get really expensive and the risk of losing/damaging the DE-1 in the
> post wouldn't warrant it.
>
> Programming is done in a matter of seconds once a DE-1 has been linked to
> a PC/Mac.
>
> Let's concentrate on someone actually creating the code in the first place
> (or finishing the current CoCo3FPGA project).
>
> Nick
>
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