[Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?

[Joel Ewy]

Gary,

    This is fantastic.  I applaud your hard work and I really appreciate
your releasing the code under the terms of the GPL.  This ensures that
the entire CoCo community can contribute to the project and improve and
extend what you've done.  This also means that if you don't have the
motivation to implement (e.g.) hardware-level floppy controller logic,
somebody else can step in and do it.  And those of us interested in
adding Next-Gen capabilities to the CoCo will have a foundation to work
from.
    Now I'm really inspired to start saving my pennies for an FPGA
development board, and I have new motivation to learn some Verilog.
    Thanks, and congratulations!

JCE

Becker, Gary wrote:
> So many questions, so little time.
>
> Here is a link to the new page.
>
> www.geocities.com/gary_L_becker/coco3fpga.html
>
> Sorry for the quality of the pictures, but that was the best I could do
> in this amount of time. I believe most of the questions are answered on
> this page. But feel free to ask additional questions.
>
> One thread has suggested emulating the floppy hardware. I am not doing
> this. Since my main focus is on NitrOS-9, I just needed a way to read
> and write images. I did dual floppy hardware emulation for an Apple IIe
> project and maybe in the future I will get around to the same for the
> CoCo3FPGA. How much software actually talks directly to the floppy
> controller? Any software that uses routines in the Disk BASIC ROMs
> should work.
>
> If anyone wants do try this out, the FPGA demo board is available for
> approximately $150. I would like to port to other boards also, so send
> me any preferences.
>
> www.digilentinc.com.
>
> Gary
>
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