[Coco] CC-Five (was Re: Pseudo CoCo4???) (LONG)

[jdaggett at gate.net]

In doing that  you may limit the hardware or cause an increase in cost for 
hardware to be backward compatible. 

Just about anything now to go into a FPGA will require extra hardware to 
interface 3 volt logic to 5 volt logic.

james

On 22 Jan 2007 at 9:39, Joel Ewy wrote:

> I think there would need to be a sufficient level of backwards
> compatibility that people would have software to run on the new
> platform while developing the new stuff.  This also means that much of
> what now exists in software could just be enhanced rather than being
> entirely rewritten from scratch.  This is also why I'm suggesting
> modest, attainable improvements over the CoCo 3.  If a next-gen CoCo
> has better built-in sound, then build in an Orch-90cc circuit, so that
> one could run software that already uses that hardware.  Here's where
> emulators and real hardware could work synergistically.  If the
> emulator is free, or very inexpensive, then lots of people can quickly
> get their hands on the new system and write new software, so that
> there will be something to run on the real hardware.