[Coco] MCC-216

[Bill Loguidice]

Her name is Jeri Ellsworth. She continues to hack things and works for
Valve now. She's very easy to track down, very public, but I seriously
doubt she'd have any interest or time. Most of her efforts these days are
in other things (pinball for one) and I don't think she has any personal
connection with CoCo stuff like she did with Commodore stuff, which was a
passion. It was a big commercial effort to do the C-64-on-a-chip (same with
the Atari 2600-on-a-chip), and I don't think things have gotten that much
easier to make something super niche like the CoCo a viable product. The
simplest, most direct path to get this done, and perhaps one that's the
most versatile, i.e., one that can be used for something in addition to
CoCo stuff, might be the best (or most realistic) approach... Just my two
cents.

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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> >> Other than potential mysteries inside the GIME (if there are any),
> hardware emulation of a CoCo via FPGA seems like the best best, but if it
> cannot use true CoCo hardware, it might as well be a small X86 box running
> MESS.
> >
> > There was a time I would have agreed with you. Then I got the DE1 board
> and got the coco3fpga image. For me it feels like a real coco3. I can't
> > explain why exactly but it's an order of magnitude better then an
> emulator running on a PC.
>
> Maybe I am not coming across correctly, but it sounds like you and I are
> on the same page. That DE1 was a CoCo, sans having a real CoCO keyboard,
> joysticks, etc. which would be trivial so ad, I would think. Some I/O
> lines, analog input.  I plan to see what all I can simulate using an
> Arduino from RadioShack, even.
>
> >> From what I understand the commodore joystick was developed with on an
> fpga and the commercial product was done with an asic.
>
> The lady that designed it was on a TWIT podcast a few years ago talking
> about it. I should go back and listen, but it makes me want to track her
> down and see if she wants to tackle a CoCo sometime. If it can do all the
> SID and sprite stuff in a C64, it seems the CoCo would be easier?
>
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