[Coco] Message from John of gimechip.com

[Joel Ewy]

On 06/12/2010 07:51 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> ...
> To than end, I have tried to make the level 3 scheme work since that gives a
> separate paging scheme for rbf vs scf devices, but have not been able to
> make a working boot yet.  If it would be possible to jigger one more address
> bit into the 6309 itself, that problem would go away for all practical
> purposes.  The chances of that happening are somewhere between .000001% of
> slim and none though. But we like to lay awake nights thinking on how to do
> it otherwise. ;-)
>
>    

Of course that's one of the things that would be possible in an FPGA 
that we can't do with the older hardware.

> On another front, John Kawalski (SockMaster) has some speedup logic that
> runs things at 2x speed for cpu access&  normal speed for video, and since
> this gets into the same region of the hardware, maybe Johns ideas can be
> incorporated into your sram kit?  That would be super cool.
>
>    

And running an FPGA at 20-some-odd megaherz is another nice benefit.

JCE