[Coco] Is there a modern replica CoCo for sale?

[Keith Monahan]

Yeah these projects are pretty cool.

I have a half-built Commodore A500+ board that I'm building. I lost 
motivation after soldering 200 parts and only being half done.

Good idea though. Part of the problem is the custom silicon chips. This 
is why FPGAs are excellent because you can reproduce the functionality 
indefinitely. Using something like Verilog, as long as you're careful 
with how you write it, you can continually port to 
newer/better/faster/more current parts.

Keith


On 12/17/2021 11:37 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2021, at 10:35 AM, Keith Monahan via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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>> 1> I saw a new CoCo motherboard at CoCoFest. I'm not sure if it was a 2 or 3, but a project like this is definitely out there. The project name escapes me, however, it's something like Athena. Or some greek god name. I want to say John of 3D printer coco raspberry pi400 cases fame had it with him. I do believe it's early on in the project.....
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> I’ll keep my eye out on this one. I believe Ed Snider did a project where he recreated a CoCo but I don’t know if that was ever designed to be sold.
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>> 2> CoCo3 FPGA. It's a reimplementation inside an FGPA. Not exactly the same thing because of the form factor, but still pretty useful and relevant, I think.
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> I do have Roger Taylors Matchbox CoCo FPGA and a MiSTER running his RealCoCo FPGA. Both are fantastic, just missing a real CoCo keyboard.
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