[Coco] Today, I have seen the CoCo 4...

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Jim

The main advantage the Xilinx Spartan 3 Starter board has is more SRAM. The DE-1 has 
512K and the Spartan 3 Starter has 1Meg. 

I wished both had more SRAM. 

james 


On 26 May 2010 at 21:24, Jim Hathaway wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> I plan on ordering the DE1 this weekend. Is there some reason I would
> be better off with the Xilinx board?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> > Do you have a DE1 or the Xilinx board?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Hathaway" <kg4knb at hat3.net>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:39:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Today, I have seen the CoCo 4...
> >
> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ... thanks to Gary Becker's awesome work, the Altera DE1 board that I have
> >> is running a CoCo 3 in an FPGA at up to 25MHz.  Booting into NitrOS-9 using
> >> the DriveWire server is fast and works like a charm.  There is additional
> >> work being done on the DriveWire support front.  In any case, this is as
> >> close to a real CoCo as you can get.
> >> --
> >> Boisy G. Pitre
> >> http://www.tee-boy.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Boisy,
> >
> > Has Gary released the code for the DE1 for anyone to download and try or do
> > you need to get the latest code from him directly?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim Hathaway
> > Web: http://hat3.net
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