[Coco] How about THIS as a CoCo 3 replacement instead of an FPGA? Thoughts?

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Wed Aug 5 12:28:57 EDT 2015


How about an Arduino Galileo (intel based Arduino) running Free DOS and booting into Jeff Vavasour's old CoCo 3 emulator?

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/Galileo_Datasheet_329681_003.pdf

http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco3

FreeDOS running on Galileo using SeaBIOS as a CSM (Compatibility Support Module).
 
The SeaBIOS patches are at http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git and patches to the Quark UEFI at http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/quark-edk2.git

It has a mini pci express slot which can have a VGA card plugged into it.

A full sized mini-PCI Express* slot, 100Mb Ethernet port, Micro-SD slot, RS-232 serial port, USB Host port, USB Client port, and 8MByte NOR flash come standard on the board.

o 512 KByte embedded SRAM that is enabled by the firmware by default. 

o 256 MByte DRAM, enabled by the firmware by default.

o Optional micro SD card offers up to 32GByte of storage
o USB storage works with any USB 2.0 compatible drive

o 11 KByte EEPROM can be programmed via the EEPROM library.


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