[Coco] CoCo emulation on a Compaq Internet Appliance?

[Diego Barizo]

I had one of those. I used a 64 MB CF card as HD.
Booted DOS, and loaded ... I believe it was JV's emulator.
The lack of function keys (and some others) in the IR keyboard can be a 
factor, but ...
Can be used, and takes a lot less room than an extra PC for 
emulation.... and old DOS games :-)

Diego

PS remember to setup the "BLASTER" variable in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file



Roger Taylor wrote:
> While driving through town today a local church was having a huge 
> multi-family rummage sale.  I whipped in to comb the place for gadgets 
> and I came across this wierd little compact device that appeared to be 
> a terminal.  Someone had it at the bottom of a big box full of Tandy 
> 1000 stuff.  I passed up the Tandy computer, monitor, and stuff, and 
> was mesmerized by the small size of the Compaq "thingy".
>
> It has a flat panel screen that folds upward, a remote keyboard, 4 USB 
> ports, 2 phone jacks, sound out jack, and a Compact Flash slot.  Ah 
> ha!  Potential, I said.  So me and the kids rounded up an armload of 
> crap, took it to their little table with a tarp over it, and the lady 
> said.... how about $5 for all that.  I put on a fake poker face, and 
> said... hmmm, and I took a look at the junk we gathered up which was 
> probably 4 items, and I said.... "ok".  :)
>
> So I get home, Google up "Compaq CE-1000" and "Compaq Internet 
> Appliance" and soon came across a few hack sites for the thing.  It 
> turns out, a guy has put LINUX on his.  Using a 16MB Compact Flash 
> image of the bootable copy of Linux, and changing a few BIOS 
> parameters (it normally runs a small version of Windows and MSN 
> Explorer/Companion, etc.), he walks you through how he boots into 
> Linux and apparently uses or is trying to use his USB-to-Ethernet 
> device to connect to the net.
>
> What I want to do is use a larger CF card with some kind of bootable 
> CoCo emulator on it and try to turn this thing into a ... CoCo 4 ?  
> :)  Ok, bad choice of words, as i don't want to fire THAT topic up 
> again, but perhaps this thing has enough power (266mz) and hardware to 
> support a fully-housed version of an emulated CoCo.  With the internal 
> Flash and CF capabilities as well as 4 USB ports, I think something 
> neat can be done here.
>
> There's currently one on Ebay as well if anyone wants to go parallel 
> with me on this project and see what happens.  I'm thrilled that it 
> powered up with a nice color display and ofcourse Microsoft takes over 
> very quickly and is a reminder that it's just a computer and it can 
> run an operating system and normal software.
>
> Here's a few links to wet the appetite.
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-iPAQ-Home-Internet-Appliance-IA-1-178358-001_W0QQitemZ300160514342QQihZ020QQcategoryZ140072QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem 
>
> (see the large photos at the bottom of the page)
>
> http://realprogrammers.com/hack/IA-1/img/original/x_session.jpg
>
> http://www.koopjesnet.be/compaq_series_ce1000_178358-001_ipaq_home_internet_zd20049964.html 
>
>
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