[Coco] Just a thought

[Al Hartman]

It would be a re-implemented Coco 3 - using a 63B09EP, the GIME in an 
FPGA (which should allow VGA output, and up to 2mb of RAM. A PS/2 
keyboard port. All the Coco 3 ports (bitbanger, joysticks, cassette, 
cartridge, composite video, audio). User supplies ROMs from a real Coco 
3 to avoid copyright issues.



I would put a socket onboard for an HDBDOS ROM which could be disabled 
with a switch if you plug a cartridge or other controller with a ROM 
into the cartridge port.


That would be a pretty good start towards a Deluxe Coco, or a Coco 4.


-[ Al ]-


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 01:44 PM, Zippster wrote:

> What would a CoCo version of the Replica I look like (hardware wise).
> Remake of the CoCo1?
>
> On a sort of off topic note...
> There are a lot of SBC projects out there Joe.  Have you ever checked 
> out
> the N8VEM group?  A lot of nice projects there, and a lot of very 
> knowledgable
> hardware people.
>
> - Ed