[Coco] Expanding features via FPGA’s & VCC

[S Klammer]

"If you build it, they will come..."

Throw a CocoSDC on there too? :)

Shain
On Nov 4, 2015 10:20 PM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to agree that the big question is who will write software
> to take advantage of new features.
>
> With FPGAs we can implement darn near any hardware we can
> think of, but without software… well…
>
> I’m fully expecting that no one will write anything for the FPGA
> board I’m working on for the cart port, and that the number of people
> wanting one for interfacing projects will probably be something I can
> count on my fingers.  It’ll still be a cool project for my purposes
> though  :)
>
> I do plan on implementing drivers and code so that it will be useable
> as a Wordpak type board for 80 column text through the VGA port,
> RS232 ports, and PWM sound (CoCo uploaded samples), so it may find
> some favor there.
>
> Just set up my new reflow oven so that I can do BGAs.  Looks promising,
> now I just have to finish designing that PCB.  :)
>
> - Ed
>
>
>
>
> > On Nov 4, 2015, at 8:35 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/11/2015 5:26 PM, James Ross wrote:
> >
> >> I don’t know how feasible it would be, but what might be interesting
> >> for expanding graphics (and sound) via the FPGA’s would be if they
> >> could be implemented through a type of “Hardware Acceleration” so the
> >> drivers would setup and emit small commands to the hardware as
> >> opposed to having the 6x09 CPU loaded down doing them.
> >
> > The obvious first candidate would be sprites. They're trivial to
> implement in an FPGA. But how do you 'standardise' them and who is going to
> write software to utilise them?
> >
> >>> I had over 50 people "hounding" me to get VCC to open source and
> >>> not one has offered to help work on it.
> >
> > The thinking being that if it's open source, them _someone_ (else) will
> work on it! ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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