[Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?

[rondelvo]

why stop at 256 colors?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nickolas Marentes" <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:04 AM
Subject: [Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?


> Good work!!
>
> This opens the door to a REAL CoCo4 in actual hardware.
>
> My suggestion would be to aim towards a board replacement with a real 
> CoCo3.
>
> We would need to set realistic specifications for the CoCo4 upgrade and 
> make it a drop in replacement. A badge replacement on the top case that 
> replaces the "Tandy Color Computer 3" with one that says "Color Computer 
> 4" (take out the Tandy since they had nothing to do with it).
>
> I'd be happy with a CoCo3 that ran at 12Mhz and had a 256 color mode and 
> possibly support for an internal IDE.
>
> But with the flexibility of this FPGA board, we could add more.
>
> Nick
>
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