[Coco] CoCo 3 FPGA?

[Jim Cox]

Hi Joe:

I agree that we should respect Gary's wishes not to 
commercialize the CoCo-FPGA, but I do think an expansion 
board would be a good idea.  I think a lot of people both 
newbies and old-timers could benefit from "hacking" around 
on a CoCo.

I think I need to look back through this thread to get a 
better understanding of what is going on and what 
shouldn't go on.

Jim

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:11:31 -0500
  Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> Jim Cox wrote:
>SNIPPED
> One word of caution:  Gary has expressed his preference 
>that his project
> not be commercialized.  I think we need to respect that. 
> What he has is
> some code that will turn an off-the-shelf FPGA 
>development board into a
> CoCo 3.  He said he is willing to release the code, but 
>he doesn't want
> somebody to make a CoCo 3 System On a Chip board, stuff 
>his code in it,
> and sell it.  However, I don't see why somebody couldn't 
>make up some
> interface boards that would allow one to plug CoCo 
>hardware into one of
> the FPGA development boards and sell that as a kit to 
>make it easier for
> others to roll their own.  I would hope that wouldn't 
>violate the spirit
> of Gary's project.  In any case, I don't think anybody's 
>going to be
> getting rich off a CoCo in an FPGA, but it's a fantastic 
>new opportunity
> for CoCo hobbyists, and maybe even newcomers to the CoCo 
>as you suggest,
> Jim.
> 
> JCE