[Coco] CoCo3FPGA new 640x450 256-color graphic mode

[spereira1952 at comcast.net]

FWIW, I recently got the CoCo3FPGA bug, and I have gotten one up and running for myself. 

There is a web site put up by one of the CoCo3FPGA group members that offers step-by-step how-to guidance: 

http://www.brianholman.com/retrocompute/files/coco3fpga.html 

This worked for me, with a glitch only in one spot - but the good folks in the CoCo3FPGA group got me through it. You can see my thread "New Guy: Can't get it to work" on the CoCo3FPGA Group site. at the end of the thread is information that I needed to finally get it to work. For me, it was one long weekend day, but one ought to be able to accomplish everything in a few hours, given all the downloading and installing of the stuff you need to get going from absolutely nothing like I did. 

Go for it! I'm loving mine! 

smp 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ron" <ron at kdomain.org> 
To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 9:20:55 AM 
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo3FPGA new 640x450 256-color graphic mode 

Hi Nick, 

Do you know if all the documentation/downloads are up-to-date with 
regards to the installation and configuration of the Coco3FPGA in the 
state it's in now for those of us who would like to get started and get 
up and running a bit easier? 

Certainly appreciate all the hard work by those involved. Congrats! 

-Ron 


On 9/30/2015 3:31 AM, Nick Marentes wrote: 
> The name "CoCo3FPGA" is a bit misleading. 
> 
> It's far more than that. 
> 
> - VGA both scan doubled CoCo3 modes plus true 640x480 VGA 
> - 4096 color palette 
> - Close to full CoCo3 software compatibility (improving all the time) 
> - PS/2 keyboard, drivewire support and SD card. 
> - up to 25Mhz operation (a 40sec assembly language compile took 3sec!) 
> 
> and less that $180 for a fully assembled board (firmware is free). 
> 
> Not a CoCo2.... not a CoCo3.... A COCO4!!! 
> 
> Nick 
> 
> 
> On 30/09/2015 8:18 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote: 
>> Just thought I'd give everyone a glimpse of what's happening with 
>> CoCo3FPGA. Gary has just added a brand new video mode that gives higher 
>> resolution and more colors. Here's a link to a video that demonstrates 
>> the new mode: 
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/YTrqKphZiyw 
> 
> 
> 


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