[Coco] Test

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Bill

The real stumbling block is to a CoCo 4 is a chip that will be 
backward compatible with the GIME Chip and improved version of 
it. 

If there is no need to be backward compatible with the Coco 1,2 or 3 
then a whole new chip in FPGA could be designed and go one step 
further and do the CPU in FPGA. Then you can run the whole board 
at around 25Mhz. Used SRAM and/or SDRAM. 

I would imagine some backward compatibility to the Coco 3 is 
needed as to not have to do major rewrites to Nitros9. Just more 
functionality of the GIME chip. 

james


 

On 5 Jan 2004 at 9:59, Bill Cousert wrote:

> 
> Ok. I'll break the silence.
> 
> Coco 4 project?
> 
> Instead of a hardware project, why not modify one of the emulators?
> Emulate what could have been. If there is enough interest, perhaps a
> real hardware project could be started later?
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>     At 11:36 AM 1/5/04 -0600, Boisy Pitre wrote:
>     >This is a test message, as I haven't been getting any traffic
>     from the >list in almost a day.
> 
>     Last post (before yours) appears to have been about 8:40 last
>     night. Maybe it's just quiet?
> 
>     Dennis
> 
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