Fw: [Coco] [color computer] Just imagining...

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <Yahoo at DVDPlayersOnly.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [color computer] Just imagining...


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Gault"
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:37 AM
>
>> Reads like you were describing one of the current emulators. :)
>>
>> George Ramsower wrote:
>>> I was just wondering..
>>>
>>>  These new programmable chips are so fast and powerful today, it's just 
>>> amazing!
>>>
>>>  Could a really fast one be able to(with good, tight coding) monitor the 
>>> CPU in a coco, understand what it was trying to do(such as in RS-BASIC) 
>>> and produce the info to (for example) run a graphics card? This wouldn't 
>>> be an issue with software if we were running RS-Basic on a coco.
>>>  No COCO software required! The plug-in card with powerful chips could 
>>> interpret and display what was intended for a TV without interfering 
>>> with the COCO!
> <snip>
>
> Yup! Something like that but designed into something that could plug into 
> the VDG port of a real CC3 and do the following..

DOH!

 I mean't the expansion slot

>
> .........
>  It would monitor all the pertinent lines on the 40 pin expansion slot, 
> pretend it was a VDG, interpret the instructions, convert these into 
> something that could be used on a modern monitor and put these new signals 
> on the built-in connector, enabling us to plug in a modern monitor, or use 
> it on a KVM switch.
> I would LOVE to put my coco into this same desk, but I've no room for two 
> monitors.
>
> Imagine the coco with the PC keyboard adapter, this hypothetical video 
> converter and a KVM switch, using /t2 and a comm port on the PC
>
> An "All-In-One" computing system
>
> Right now, my coco is in another room which is not good for serious 
> computer play. So I use Hyperterm and /t2 to play on my coco.
> I wish I could bring the "Box" into the "nest" with this PC.
>
> George
>
> 



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