[Coco] Expanding features via FPGA’s & VCC

[tim franklinlabs.com]

   This is exactly my point in a conversation I had with Nick M. There are
   several of us pursuing FPGA projects. Roger Taylor is doing a DE-0
   CoCo, Louis is doing an RGB thing... I'm doing a SoCoCo which will be
   the CoCo I've always wanted (feature wise). Nick negatively pointed out
   that no one will write software for my project. That may be so but as I
   pointed out... It doesn't matter. It's the road traveled to get there
   that's the passion for me. The passion to answer the question; "Can it
   be done?".

     On November 5, 2015 at 5:36 AM Francis Swygert <farna at att.net>
     wrote:
     Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:20:14 -0600
     From: Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>
     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  :)======================================
     Well, at this point designing for yourself and maybe adding some
     utility so others might find what you build useful as well is
     expected. The good thing about your FPGA pak is it can be used for
     just about anyting -- including mimicking/emulating old hardware
     that no longer exists or is hard to find/expensive when found.
      Frank Swygert
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