[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 87, Issue 8

[Mark Marlette]

Steven,

As Rob R. has pointed out, http://pacedev.net

I tried them all, not all compile error free but the LOE here is  VERY high. Again major work being done.

Fun to play pacman one minute and the CoCo the next...

As Gene H. pointed out Pace is correct for the desoldering work station, but I should have expanded.

Regards,

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:47:51 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 87, Issue 8

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Mark Marlette wrote:

>
> As I am no VHDL engineer, I have dabbled in it.
>
> At one point I had a version of Gary's code. As one might appreciate his 
> .pof or .sof file, when you look at the source you WILL appreciate it. 
> Holy Hanna!
>
> This is not for the faint heart and it is an advanced project, IMHO.

No doubt of that.  But, the only way to learn is to try.

> There will be a lot of how the heck do you get that from this. :) As 
> some of this is looking at someone else's code, it is complex.

I've had a modicum of training in computer architecture, digital design 
and synthesis, but most of it was years ago when I went back for my 
(belated) CS degree and minored in EE.  Those creaks you hear are my brain 
muscles...  Nice thing is that I work elbow to elbow with folks who live 
and breathe this stuff.

> Another minor point, you better have a pretty good computer. My laptop 
> compiled it in ~20 minutes and it is pretty snappy, engineering work 
> assigned unit. The desktop took 1/2 hr to compile, it was a Dell P4, 
> 3.2GHZ w/1GB of DRAM.

Home box is a 2.4GHz Core2 Quad with 8GB of memory.  We'll have to see how 
painful it turns out to be.

> Hats off to Gary and John K., Mark M. also has some cool stuff at Pace.

Hats off to all the hardware gurus.  As they say "..oh, you have a CS 
degree?  That's nice, just don't touch anything.".

Steve


p.s. - What's 'Pace'?


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