[Coco] Why haven't we got this?!!

[Bill Pierce]

Nick,
Look here:

http://www.symbos.de/trex.htm

and here:

http://www.symbos.de/sf2.htm

These are the macines used. Much like the CocoFPGA.
25mhz, 512k=1024k of mem, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, 125g IDE HDs etc.
With mods to the NitrOS9 drivers, the CocoFPGA could blow this out of the water. Nitros9 is much more mature and easily adaptable.


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 1:03 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Why haven't we got this?!!


Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at ...> writes:

> 
> 
> Nick, I'm not embarrassed at all.... Do some digging in that website.
> I think you'll find that front page to be quite misleading and stretching
the truth quite a bit.
> Most of those screenshots were from a soupped up fpga (or something
similar) running a highly modified
> emulator with capabilities that the original machines never had.. First,
most of those machines nor
> their cpus was capable of doing what they are stating.
> Let's see... memory bank switching up to 1024k, multple windows, up to 63k
per process,,,,,
> Hmm.... sounds really, really familiar.... The GUI looks a lot
like...hmmmm......
> Me thinks they were looking at another very familiar OS when they started
this...


Hope you're right. Maybe they are showing it running on a PC via an emulator?


Here's some YouTube videos of it in action expressly showing/stateing it to
be running on real hardware. Does the Amstrad have an accelerator card?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sdtyWPrAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ish4ReOjdIw (ignore overlaid backing music)

Nick






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