[Coco] [Color Computer] Complete Commodore 64 home computer on a single chip

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Boisy

I am still debating as to how much of the video section to improve 
or  just start with the basic CoCo VDU and then go back and do 
more. 

I have been investigating also if the circuit will also fit into a large 
CPLD instead of a FPG A. Reasons behind that is that Altera and 
Xilinx FPGA need a configuration rom to load in the FPGA settings 
each time power is removed. The configuration roms are around 
$20 each. WHew that much for serial 2 meg flash. 

Actel makes FPGAs that are nonvolitile, but I am not familiar with 
their tools. A switch now would require another learning curve 
period. 

Oh the quandries of design.

james


On 22 Dec 2004 at 13:16, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

From:           	"Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com>
Subject:        	Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Complete 
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> Hey, weren't you working on designing a replacement GIME?
> 
> How is that coming along?
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> Boisy