[Coco] Coco 4

[Neil Morrison]

Yes. The EI should support floppies, a hard drive, serial & parallel
ports (and USB would be nice), the Orchestra 90 hardware which is
simple, have a slot inside to plug in a Speech/Sound PAK (which is
not simple), and still have a port on the side for ROMPAKs etc.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>


> My 0.02€ for a CoCo4:
>
> 1) Backward compatible to the CoCo123 (it should stay a CoCo. I
don't
> want a totally new system, there are already lots of "new" things
to
> play with (PC, Apple,...)
> 2) Most used hardware included (I don't want to waste all the MPI
slots
> for floppy disk and HD controllers, serial/parallel interface,
speech
> sound + orchestra 90cc, etc.
> 3) At least 2MB of memory
>
> The planned Cloud9 Super Board is a good approach.
>
> some new features could be:
>
> 1) Higher Speed
> 2) Kind of DMA for drive access and sound input/output
> 2) A "Blitter" for fast memory copy operations without charging the
CPU
>
> some new features for the GIME:
>
> 1) A 256 color mode
> 2) Sprites like the C=64's VID
>
> Any suggestions?
> Torsten