[Coco] CoCoVGA 64-column mode

[Alexander Wallace]

Impressive work, congrats guys!

> On May 9, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Brendan Donahe <brendan at polylith.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, this is for a real CoCo 2.  The only CoCoVGA board type in existence
> today is compatible with a Rev B board with a 6847.  We are considering
> support of other CoCos, though.
> 
> Thanks for all of the positive feedback.  I have long felt that it was an
> unnecessary burden on the 6809 to render text in applications such as VIP
> Writer.  The 6809 is great, but I think we can get more out of it if we
> don't need it to handle the rendering all the time.
> 
> Brendan
> 
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Alexander Wallace <
> alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That looks amazing!
>> 
>> I lack context due to my newness to the list.
>> 
>> Will this work on a real CoCo I/2 ? What Mods are required?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> On May 9, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Brendan Donahe <brendan at polylith.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (This time around I'm cross-posting for folks not on Facebook.)
>>> 
>>> I have a 64-column text mode working on CoCoVGA.  This is a 64k CoCo 2
>> with
>>> the FPGA board Ed Snider, Steve Spiller, and I have been working on for a
>>> few years.
>>> 
>>> https://youtu.be/F6yw1nHYpTc
>>> 
>>> For folks who haven't seen the other CoCoVGA videos before or seen the
>> mode
>>> demo in person at CoCoFEST, videos of that are also posted on that
>> YouTube
>>> channel.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to Allen Huffman for posting clear and concise info for putting
>> the
>>> CoCo in all-RAM mode and copying ROM to RAM so that I could use the
>>> Unravelled books to patch BASIC for this.
>>> 
>>> Brendan
>>> 
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