[Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?

[Christopher Hawks]

Luis Fernández said the following on 11/18/2010 10:03 PM:
> Dear All
> I'm new at this
> I do not speak very well English
> so sorry
> with respect to the 4 I have a coconut, I think great suggestion
> I have also a commodore 64
> and acquired a joystick that had a commodore in a single chip
> pc keyboard interface, floppy interface and / or think dd
> commodore 64 30 games in one joystick
>
> not a little game is a complete computer with ram rom basic interpreter
> sound, everything, but can pc keyboard and much more
>
> would be wonderful to make coconut 4 of the way
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-64-Games-Joystick-Electronic-Game/dp/B000701CSM

Welcome Luis!!

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> From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:02 AM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?
>
>> This discussion is great. I was so hoping Steve Bjork's Coco4 project would
>> work, and was disappointed when it was abandoned. If we do come up with a
>> "better" Coco, please do not forget the old semi-graphics modes. Many really
>> great software programs were written for these old graphics modes, such as
>> Mark Data's Cave Hunter.
>>
>> -- Steve --
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bjork" <6809er at srbsoftware.com>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?
>>
>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Remember, the CoCo4 Project did include an CoCo1/2/3 emulator that would
>>> work most Color Computer without any mods.
>>> But the emulator did not stop there. You could also could also use the
>>> optional I/O card to hookup CoCo Joysticks, Floppy Disk controller card and
>>> other devices to the CoCo 4 system. The I/O card would have its own
>>> Micro-CPU chip to talk to the CoCo hardware and USB interface to the PC.
>>> Best of all, it was deign to fit inside a CoCo case and use the CoCo
>>> keyboard. It would look and work just like a CoCo 3.
>>>
>>> A new project that I've been toying with over the past few months (since all
>>> work has stop of the CoCo 4 project) is a Western Digital Floppy Disk
>>> controller emulator. Instead of emulating the Floppy drive as others have
>>> done, I would emulate the WDFC data to the CPU. Any program could work with
>>> the device without any mods.
>>>
>>> For the CoCo, the device would be about the size of a rom pak and interface
>>> into a PC as a USB device. Its operation would be like DriveWire without the
>>> need to mod DECB or OS-9. An OS-9 driver could be written to talk to the
>>> device in a "native" mode for faster byte transfers. (And be upto 8 times
>>> faster than drive wire too.)
>>>
>>> The plan is to create a working device to the CoCo first and then release
>>> the design to public domain for others to use with their non-coco systems.
>>>
>>> Steve Bjork
>>>
>>> On 11/18/2010 4:16 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
>>>> Anything beyond what Steve is describing is, IMHO, so far removed from a
>>>> Coco as to be pointless. I'm not 100% sure of Steve's specifications but I
>>>> would imagine that his BASIC language is more of an extension to DECB than
>>>> a completely new language?!?
>>>>
>>>
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