[Coco] Done

[Mark Marlette]

james,

As Boisy stated earlier. He does not set the pace for the SuperBoard. I do.

The SuperBoard will finish. I won't quit, I will not turn my back on 
something that has taken me on such a wonderful ride.

I don't talk about what I am doing, I do, not enough hours in a day.

Mark
Cloud-9


At 8/16/2008 09:51 AM, you wrote:
>On 16 Aug 2008 at 7:36, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>
> > Another poster mentioned that there are people on this list who don't
> > have the experience/time/resources to write software or contribute.
> > Those aren't the people I'm talking about.  I'm talking about the
> > comers and goers who have made big announcements and pronouncements of
> >  what they were going to do, only to peter out in the end.   GCC for
> > the CoCo, replacement GIME, ethernet... I could go on and on.
>
>I can answer your GIME replacement point.
>
>it si still ongoing with lower priorities since there is already a 
>device that can convert the
>Coco RGB to VGA monitors. A much simpler approach that does not 
>require potential
>soldering skills from the end user. That was the main driving point 
>behind that FPGA GIME
>chip. Beisdes I took on the idea to learn VHDL and FPGA programming. 
>If the community
>still wants one then I can easily finish. Still the comm unity has a 
>lot of wishes but clear cut
>idea of what is needed first and what to prioritize. Until that 
>occurs, I do nothing.
>
>Besides I have only been working on that for about three years. The 
>superboard has been in
>development for over 6 yrs. Is is shipping yet? I am not doing my 
>work for profit or gain. I
>only offer my services to the community. If not wanted then no hard 
>feelings. I continue on
>with my hobby development for my personal needs.
>
>For the Coco4,  most seemed happy with it being an emmulated 
>software driven idea. I am
>a hardware engineer and my expertise in progamming software for 
>Linux and Windoze is
>not even beginers level. If hardware is needed I can offer my 
>services to anyone. But
>todevelope hardware one needs a clear and decisive path to follow.
>
>if all these appear to be excuses to y our then so be it. But my 
>time is pecious to me and I
>will work on my needs first unless there is commonality in my 
>personal needs and the Coco
>community in general.
>
>james
>
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