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

[Brian Blake]

Aaron just said in a much nicer way what I was going to.

Thanks,  Aaron, for helping me not make an ass out of myself.

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On Oct 4, 2014 6:44 PM, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coco3fpga barely fits on the DE1, which I believe has 20,000.
>
> Of course none of the speculation or "wish list" discussion actually
> matters, because only Gary Becker with his coco3fpga has done the work and
> created anything.  For the foreseeable future, if you want an improved coco
> platform that will be your one and only choice.  Its also pretty nice, so
> that isn't such a bad state of affairs.
>
> Its easy to write about what "they" should do or how "somebody" could make
> this or that, but it seems very hard for the list to understand that there
> is no "they".  " someone" is you and me.  Either make it, or help someone
> make it, or forget about ever seeing it happen.
>  On Oct 4, 2014 6:38 PM, "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > how many LE's does the coco3 take ? Maybe this one would be too small it
> > has 4608.
> >
> >
> > 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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