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

[Daniel Campos]

I had one but sell it some time ago. I made a complete review in my blog
(sorry, again in portuguese, but the link bellow is already translated to
english):

https://translate.google.com.br/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Famxproject.com%2F%3Fp%3D2251&edit-text=

In the article there is 3 videos that I made with Juan Castro that showed
the capabilities of the machine.

Daniel

2015-04-29 11:53 GMT-03:00 CoCo Demus <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>:

> Daniel Campos had one. He has the crazy hitachi 6809.
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Joe, I've been reading about the FM-7 for years. I first heard of it
> > through mention of Microware's version of OS-9 for the FM-7 in a Rainbow
> > article.
> > The graphics on the FM-7 were FAR superior to the Coco 2 and it had an
> MMU
> > capable of bank switching long before the Coco 3.
> >
> > With text resolutions of 80x25 & 40x25, and graphics resolution of
> > 640x200, blew the Coco 2 out of the water and it was comparable to the
> Coco
> > 3 even before it came out! Check out these screenshots!
> > http://www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf/fmsoft.htm
> >
> > Sound was 3 voice (onboard) with 3 noise channels.
> >
> > 3 card slots (one for a CP-M card), so expansion was available.
> >
> > I saw one on ebay a few years back but could not afford it and hated to
> > see it go to someone else. I've wanted one for years.
> >
> > The "FBASIC" is a port of Coco's MS BASIC with more commands. The OS-9 L1
> > was "almost" OS-9 L2. The screenshot shown actually says "OS-9 Level 2",
> > but a lot of people called OS-9 v1.2.0 "Level 2" up until the actual L2
> > came out Coco. Level 2 had been out for other machines for years, so most
> > of the work was done when they ported it to the Coco 3.
> >
> > Tandy could have done all this to the Coco, but I imagine it was out of
> > their "Coco budget" and besides, it would've been a better machine than
> > their lower end 1000s, and that would've been forbidden.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
> > "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> >
> >
> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 9:37 am
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] [SPAM]  Kicking the Z-80 butts...
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> >
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