[Coco] MC6847 VGA (FPGA) Project underway...

[Zippster]

That would be beyond the scope of this project.  I’m guessing we’d need to add some
off chip resources like external RAM to handle that.  We may add some additional
features though.  I could see selectable color sets and character sets under software
control via an onboard IO port.

- Ed


> On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:26 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On 10/10/2015 2:45 PM, Zippster wrote:
> 
>> This will eventually be a drop in MC6847 replacement with standard
>> VGA output and whatever additional features we can come up with.
> 
> Cool, looks nice!
> 
> Have you considered making it "GIME compatible" - at least as far as possible? That way it might be possible to have some Coco3 games run on the Coco 1/2, if they're not doing anything too fancy with the GIME?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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