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

[Marcelo Cannella]

Great news.
More and more developments.

Thanks, thanks and more thanks.

2015-10-10 1:36 GMT-03:00 Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>:

> 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,
> >
> > --
> > |              Mark McDougall              | "Electrical Engineers do it
> > |  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> |   with less resistance!"
> >
> > --
> > Coco mailing list
> > Coco at maltedmedia.com
> > https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>