[Coco] MCC-216

[Bill Loguidice]

It presently supports PS/2 keyboards and mice and db-9 joysticks. It's
doubtful other things could be interfaced without a lot of work.

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On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:05 PM, J.P. Samson <coco+list at jeanpaulsamson.com>wrote:

> On Jan. 1, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>
>  On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I've blown my "toy" budget for a while so it'll be a while before I can
>>> get one but it looks cool and could be a lot of
>>> fun.
>>>
>>
>> I don't have a toy budget at all these days, but I'd certainly find some
>> things to sell on eBay if I could get a virtualized CoCo device that ran
>> standalone and wasn't just a PC running an emulator. $169 is less than I
>> paid for any of my real CoCos :)
>>
>
> The big question mark for me is the inability to attach external devices.
>  From my point of view, support for some kind of analog joystick/mouse is
> essential (be it the pot-based original CoCo joysticks or something else).
>  A serial port of some kind would also be critical for Drivewire users, I
> should think.
>
> If, as someone else has pointed out, the Altera DE-1 boards are being
> deprecated, it would be nice if some current FPGA implementation would be
> supported, be that the MCC-216 or something else.
>
> -- JP
>
>
>
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