[Coco] FPGA the future of coco?

[Nick Marentes]

I don't think the problem is whether we have faith in the idea. I'm sure 
we all want to see a CoCo4 and FPGA is certainly the way to do it.

The problem is, who has the knowledge and inclination to actually do it?

You do realise that there already is a CoCo3FPGA with extra "CoCo4" 
features?

It's incomplete  and not ready for mainsteam yet (or ever will be?).

Price is also a factor. This sort of stuff isn't cheap in a small scale 
as is the CoCo community.

Personally, I think if someone were to create a "CoCo4" for the MIST 
FPGA board, it would be more viable since there are so many other 
emulations already available for it including Amiga and Atari ST. It has 
the advantage of being of interest to a wider community and so would 
have a larger market share than something targeted at a single user 
audience.

If the Mist can do an Amiga and Atari ST, I'm sure a CoCo4 would be 
quite do'able.

MIST website:  http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96

Any takers?

Nick



On 9/09/2014 11:32 AM, RJRTTY--- via Coco wrote:
> Ah, come on guys have a little faith. I think a hardware coco3 with 
> optional "enhanced" capabilities in a FPGA would be wonderful. Just 
> make it so that you can enable or disable the extra features in any 
> combination you desire. That way you can say dial up the speed if you 
> have a performance hungry application or choose NTSC video over SVGA 
> if you want compatibility. It would be a flexible piece of hardware 
> that would fit in a real coco1 2 or 3 case and conform to meet the 
> unique needs of each user. Imagine how interesting the cocofests would 
> become with everybody able to put their own "spin" on the coco form 
> factor. Roy