[Coco] CoCo3FPGA, FPGA Development, and GIME replacement

[Sean]

I remember when the Rocket was announced, and really would have liked
to have one of them.  Sadly I couldn't commit at the time because I
was still a poor college student.   That could have given a lot of new
life to the CoCo.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the DICTATOR sound any better now?
>
> I thought last night about breaking the 64K limit and hit a very thick steel
> wall.
>
> Adding colors, a larger screen size and other features will run up against
> the 64K limit in several ways.
>
> With a 6x09 processor it may not be possible to bypass it.
>
> D.P. Johnsons's "Rocket", a 68000 added to the CoCo sounds like the idea
> that we missed out on because the number of people that signed up for was
> too little.
>
> Software for a 6x09 based machine may already be at the limit of what we can
> do.
>
> New hardware, Great, new software to support it, questionable.
>
> SHF
>