[Coco] [SPAM] Kicking the Z-80 butts...

[Joe Grubbs]

That was me (not the owner of the FM7, but the one who mentioned multi-procs) :)    Man, that thing is cool, I've never heard of it before. If the CoCo had a second 6809 to handle graphics and sound, that would've been awesome. However back then I'm sure it would have jacked the pricetag up quite a bit.



> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:14:42 -0400
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [SPAM]  Kicking the Z-80 butts...
> From: coco at maltedmedia.com
> CC: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
> Someone said something about dual 6809s, the Japanese version of the Coco (Fujitsu FM-7 & FM-8) had dual 6809 CPUs, 1 for oepration and one as a GPU. The memory went beyond 64k and graphics were better than the Coco 2. Many american Coco games were proted to the FM-7 and had better graphics and sound.
> Here's some info (and pics) on the FM-7:
> 
> http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/fm7page.htm
> 
> Someone here on the list has one, I just can't remember who it is.
>