[Coco] Coco mini

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:50:01 -0500
Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> > On Apr 19, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Joshua Harper via Coco
> > <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > hi there guys hey just wondering, would it be possible to make a
> > Coco mini that would allow people to play any of the Coco racks
> > this files or tape files that actually don’t have a Coco a lot of
> > game systems nowadays are coming out with a mini version to be able
> > to just play the games and it would be kind of cool if There could
> > be a Coco mini that would allow you to plug the joysticks to it and
> > install or tape images. How hard do you think it would be to come
> > up with something like this curious
> 
> It is certainly easy to kludge together a Raspberry Pi and make it
> act as a CoCo emulator, and folks have 3-D printer enclosures that
> look like CoCos, but without the real joysticks it’s not quite the
> same as sitting at a CoCo.
> 
> I think that would be key — a reproduction analog joystick (which
> could then go to USB in to the emulator like the RetroGames Mini
> devices do). That would be cool.
> 
> 		— A
> 

    I was thinking more along the lines of a deluxe joystick with a 
Raspi Zero inside (and an ADC board). Kinda like Jen Ellsworth's C64
Direct-to-TV.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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