[Coco] COCO DTV

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 15 Feb 2007 at 10:17, ben jimenez wrote:

> Thats some interesting stuff, I see she's a consultant now, maybe she
> can be contacted for some more info on how she designed it.

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Ben

While she may give insight on how she designed the C64 in a chip, what she did is not all 
that difficult or earth shattering. The real issue is that the C64DTV is an ASIC. That  stands 
for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. The company  that developed this chip with her 
guiding consultaion probably cost in the range of $500,000 or more to do. The rest of the 
project development probably cost another $500,000 to a $1 million. 

Now if you have a nice cool $2 to $5 million laying around, one can do the same thing with a 
Coco3. Otherwise the next best thing is to do something in the line of the C-One. Still that is 
going to require an initial investment of at least a thousand dollars and a lot of volunteer's 
time. 

Right now there is some work ongoing to move in that direction. With just a few and limited 
resources, work will be slow. Then there are copyright infringement issues to worry about. 
Microsoft has the copyright for ECB and DECB. The heart of the Coco. Inrecent time many 
of the writers of the games for teh Coco have released to pu blic domain. That will be a 
small issue there. 

james