[Coco] CoCo 4 - the dream continues...

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Fedor 

I would love to know where I could gain access to a few HD63484s? 
Preeferably the 9.8 MHz. version. With that chip the RSBASIC 
could be rewritten and probably reduced in size to allow for more 
functions in the 32K ROM package. 

At least with that chip you now have a simple but effective graphics 
processor with VGA capabilities. Take John Kent's CPU09 soft 
processor and incorparate it with the HD63484 and you have a nice 
base for a Coco3 that should have been. Much of the graphic 
commands that are in software are now apart of the graphics chip. 

james

On 22 Jun 2006 at 14:21, Fedor Steeman wrote:

> Just expanding a bit on SockMaster's excellent idea for a CoCo4 (
> http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/cocofile/coco4.html)...
> 
> Would it be possible to stick only 2 6309 4Mhz cards on the 16 Mhz main
> board and have the other two slots occupied by a single graphics card
> running at 8Mhz, and sporting, say, a HD63484? Now then you would have some
> awesome graphics capabilities!
> 
> I am sorry, just me daydreaming... ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fedor
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