[Coco] Re: Test

Richard E. Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Tue Jan 6 12:13:13 EST 2004


Hello jimcox at miba51.com

Well as I said, I really think it's a great idea. I wish I had any expertise
to help. Unforch all I can do is write very basic BASIC and script
routine/programs. Nothing even close to the complexity as an emulator.

On 01/06/04, jimcox at miba51.com wrote:
> Richard:
> 
> Given this new list, I think the chance of a flame war 
> erupting over this idea would be a lot less than in the 
> past.
> 
> The one thing to keep in mind is there there are new 
> harware projects in the pipe, so if you were to do an 
> emulator version of a possible CoCo-4, you may want to 
> emulate those hardware projects too.
> 
> An emulator version of a CoCo-4 may be one way of flushing 
> things out before proceeding with any wardware project. I 
> don't know if it is possible, but maybe someone could take 
> the open source 6809 VHDL code and incorporate into the 
> emulator so it can be tweaked.  Once that is done, then a 
> 6309 version can be created and from there, a new CPU 
> could be developed.  I guess I am suggesting more of a CPU 
> emulator than a CoCo-4 emulator, but it could be one 
> approach to the idea.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 01:07:34 -0300
>  "Richard E. Crislip" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hello Bill
>> 
>> 
>> Thats the best suggestion I've heard in a long time. But 
>> batten down the
>> hatches because the wish list will probably sink the 
>> ship. Just deciding on
>> the new and improved features will probably start enough 
>> flame wars to keep
>> us plenty toasty and warm all through this cold winter 
>> 8-).
>> 
>>> Ok. I'll break the silence.
>>> 
>>> Coco 4 project?
>>> 
>>> Instead of a hardware project, why not modify one of the 
>>> emulators?
>>> Emulate what could have been. If there is enough 
>>> interest, perhaps a real
>>> hardware project could be started later?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>> At 11:36 AM 1/5/04 -0600, Boisy Pitre wrote:
>>>> This is a test message, as I haven't been getting any 
>>>> traffic from the 
>>>> list in almost a day.
>>> 
>>> Last post (before yours) appears to have been about 8:40 
>>> last night. Maybe
>>> it's just quiet?
>>> 
>>> Dennis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Regards
>> -- 
>> Cruisen 
>>                                                   _|_
>>              on AutoPilot with an Amiga   ---o-( )-o--- 
>>  and a CoCo
>> 
>>                                             Richard
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> 
> 
Regards
-- 
Cruisen                                                      _|_
              on AutoPilot with an Amiga   ---o-( )-o---   and a CoCo
 
                                             Richard




More information about the Coco mailing list