[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Re: CoCo video?

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

I'll repeat my contention that what would be fun would be a much faster  
6809/6309, coupled somehow to modern peripherals (but still including  floppies).  
Add some memory mapping hardware, though the Coco 3 made a very  good start.
 
This would allow "serious" apps (word processing, MIDI, software  
compile/assembly, spreadsheets, online) to run much faster, and new or  re-written old 
games could have better graphics and faster response.
 
But old Coco programs would still run just fine.  Any old games that  use the 
cock ticks for timing (instead of software spin loops) would still play  at 
the same speed, but be more snappy.
 
Frankly, though, a good emulator running on a 1 GHz or more Pentium is  
probably as fast as an ASIC chip 6309, and the emulator writers have already  
solved the peripheral interfacing issues (though no one emulator seems to have  
done everything to everyone's satisfaction).
--Mike K.