[Coco] Propeller CoCo emulator.

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Jim Cox wrote:
> All:
> 
> I just received this email, and was blown away from the screen shots.  I 
> will reread the comments in the forum to confirm it, but it looks like 
> someone has a CoCo Emulator running on a Parallax Propeller Chip.  Like 
> I said, I need to confirm this, but this is incredible if it is true.

I downloaded the code, and yes it's impressive, I recon I might look 
into having a play with one of those propeller chips myself, strikes me 
that it might make an excellent little IO proceesor type thing..... 
especially as they do a DIP version, so much easier to prototype, main 
disadvantage for hooking up to a Dragon/CoCo, is that it's a 3.3v, still 
I suppose a CPLD or something similar could be used as a level shifter.

Though it does look like the downloaded code is more of a simulator 
rather than an emulator, it basically seems to be simulating color 
basic, rather than emulating the CoCo hardware and running 6809 code, 
impressive all the same.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

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