[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 87, Issue 8

[Mark Marlette]

As I am no VHDL engineer, I have dabbled in it.

At one point I had a version of Gary's code. As one might appreciate his .pof or .sof file, when you look at the source you WILL appreciate it. Holy Hanna!

This is not for the faint heart and it is an advanced project, IMHO.

There will be a lot of how the heck do you get that from this. :) As some of this is looking at someone else's code, it is complex.

Another minor point, you better have a pretty good computer. My laptop compiled it in ~20 minutes and it is pretty snappy, engineering work assigned unit. The desktop took 1/2 hr to compile, it was a Dell P4, 3.2GHZ w/1GB of DRAM.

Hats off to Gary and John K., Mark M. also has some cool stuff at Pace.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9


----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:47:09 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 87, Issue 8

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Becker, Gary wrote:

> The keyboard mapping is something I spent a lot of time on, but maybe I 
> did not do a very good job. I probably should have mapped the PC TAB key 
> to the CoCo3 Right Arrow key. I am not sure what key would be better for 
> the CoCo3 Clear key. I guess the Cloud9 PS2 adapter uses Print Scrn with 
> is also labeled SysRequest. I am open to other mappings. The keyboard 
> definitely needs some work. I have never implemented any of the LEDs. 
> The numeric keypad would be nice also.

Gary,

I'd be delighted to pursue the keyboard issues when you make the verilog 
sources available.  Might be a good "starter" project since (hopefully) 
it's a well-bounded area of the hardware description.

Steve


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