[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Complete Commodore 64 home computer on a single chip

[jdaggett at gate.net]

If one could find the captial to do a redesign of the 6809, you open a world of 
possibilities. 

TSMC 0.18 micron process would yield a MPU about 1/4 the area of the current 
chip. It would be in CMOS and not NMOS. the MPU core could run at 1.8 VDC and 
the I/O at 3.3 or 2.5 VDC. Finally the new 6809 would run at an Q and E clock 
speed of about 100 to 150 MHZ or more. Equivalent to a 400 to 600MHz single 
phase clock MPU . 

That alone would open a great deal of opportunities for a Coco 4. 

Initial development costs: About $150,000.

james
 

On 22 Dec 2004 at 13:29, glenvdb wrote:

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> 
> 
> First the C1 board and now this, I want to marry this gal!
> Now if we could bring her from the dark side and get her to work on
> the CoCo.:) although, the CoCo in a joystick form would be useless,
> but if we could redesign, and incorporate the CoCo on a new board
> (like cloud9's superboard) who know wher it would end (CoCo 4.01?)
> -Glen
> 
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> 
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Neil Morrison" 
> <neilsmorr at h...> wrote:
> > 
> > FYI
> > 
> > "Jeri Ellsworth has squeezed the entire circuitry of a two-decade-
> old
> > Commodore 64 home computer onto a single chip, which she has tucked 
> neatly
> > into a joystick that connects by a cable to a TV set. Called the 
> Commodore
> > 64--the same as the computer system--her device can run 30 video 
> games,
> > mostly sports, racing and puzzles games from the early 1980s, all 
> without
> > the hassle of changing game cartridges.
> > 
> > She has also included five hidden games and other features--not 
> found on the
> > original Commodore computer--that only a fellow hobbyist would be 
> likely to
> > appreciate. For instance, someone who wanted to turn the device 
> into an
> > improved version of the original machine could modify it to add a 
> keyboard,
> > monitor and disk drive".
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/6q8k5
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