[Coco] 6847 FPGA

[tim at franklinlabs.com]

That explains my question.



On September 8, 2014 at 12:00 PM Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at ramoth.org.uk> wrote:
> On 08/09/2014 16:20, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > Hey all, I found this:
> >
> > https://github.com/hoglet67/AtomGodilVideo/wiki
> >
> > This FPGA boards connects direct into the 6847 slot and provides VGA
> > output. I think it should work out of the box with our beloved cocos 1&2.
> >
> > It costs 49EUR though. But it's an interesting thing with extra features
> > and 80x24 char output.
>
> I know the person that developed that, one thing to note is that it is
> designed to be used in the Atom, where the 6847 fetches the data
> directly from the video RAM, not using the SAM to do DMA like the CoCo /
> Dragons etc.
>
> Though this implementation has the video RAM within the FPGA, it has not
> been tested in combination with a SAM and so would need some work to get
> it going.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
>
>
>
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