[Coco] Message from John of gimechip.com

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 12 01:02:23 EDT 2010


sales at gimechip.com wrote:
> Gene, I used to read the list posts via google - they would show up when 
> I would be searching google for coco stuff. I remember seeing your name 
> in some of those searches. Thanks for the welcome - most of the stuff I 
> design is for the CoCo, but some is for Timex & Sinclair - I hope to 
> find a place to post that someday too. I am also working on a clone of 
> the Aamber Pegasus which was a neat 6809 machine. It, like the ZX81, 
> used the CPU for video generation - if you disable the FIRQ, then the 
> Aamber loses video buts is Waaayyyy faster - sort of like the ZX81 FAST 
> mode.

Ohhh I never heard of that machine before, do you have a link to  any 
info on it John ? My first machine before the Dragon was the ZX81 so 
this of course sounds interesting.

Oh and BTW welcome to the list.

Cheers,

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.



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