[Coco] How about THIS as a CoCo 3 replacement instead of an FPGA? Thoughts?

[Dave Philipsen]

That sounds pretty cool.  What kind of relative speed would you expect 
to get out of it?

Dave


On 8/5/2015 11:28 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> How about an Arduino Galileo (intel based Arduino) running Free DOS and booting into Jeff Vavasour's old CoCo 3 emulator?
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> http://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/Galileo_Datasheet_329681_003.pdf
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> http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco3
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> FreeDOS running on Galileo using SeaBIOS as a CSM (Compatibility Support Module).
>   
> The SeaBIOS patches are at http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git and patches to the Quark UEFI at http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/quark-edk2.git
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> It has a mini pci express slot which can have a VGA card plugged into it.
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> A full sized mini-PCI Express* slot, 100Mb Ethernet port, Micro-SD slot, RS-232 serial port, USB Host port, USB Client port, and 8MByte NOR flash come standard on the board.
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> o 512 KByte embedded SRAM that is enabled by the firmware by default.
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> o 256 MByte DRAM, enabled by the firmware by default.
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> o Optional micro SD card offers up to 32GByte of storage
> o USB storage works with any USB 2.0 compatible drive
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> o 11 KByte EEPROM can be programmed via the EEPROM library.
>