[Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or NextCoCo projectthatBjork was heading?

[Paul Fitch]

I think the FPGA route is the only realistic method available to do this in
hardware.  I'm just not that interested in a hardware project.  Doing it in
emulation (the Coco4) however, has had me wishing very hard that I could
program at that level.  I just don't see spending hundreds of dollars on
duplicating hardware that in most any matchup would be inferior to the stuff
found on every bargin basement Windows 7 starter computer available today
for under $400.00.  And that's just the brand new stuff.  

I would love to be able fire up VCC v2.0 and get a 1024 x 768, 64k color
screen under Uber-DECB or Nitros9 v3.0.  With native USB awareness built in,
I would run it on my netbook, it would talk to my X-10 stuff, it would get
my email, I would surf the web.

The thing about that (now dead) Coco4 wishlist is it could all have been
realized two or three years ago fully in software, without the thousands of
hours necessary to design hardware to run it.  Then finding the money to get
it into production, then the need to convince 50 or 60 or 100 people, out of
how many of us are there left these days, 400-500 tops, to buy it?

It reminds me so much of what the MM/1 guys went thru.  They spent their
dreams trying to get the hardware available at the time to live up to their
(and mine, and everyone elses) expectations.  Today you don't need that
hardware headache.  The hardware is here, it's a software problem.

I dearly wish someone would code a solution.  I wish even more I had the
skills to do it myself.   

I'm not interested in a hardware Coco4, but I would buy the emulation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Little John
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:54 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or 
> NextCoCo projectthatBjork was heading?
> 
> I think Steve's idea was to actually use a "mini" pc mobo of 
> some sort running the Vcc emulator to realize a CoCo4. A 
> cartridge port could have been rigged to it, etc. It would 
> have been neat to have seen had it came to exist.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or 
> NextCoCo project thatBjork was heading?
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:35:08PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> >> At 06:20 PM 10/19/2010, you wrote:
> >> >The last time I looked at the page, it said: "The CoCo 4 
> Project is 
> >> >dead..." I was saddened...
> >> >but at least there is the CC3FPGA from which many things 
> are likely 
> >> >to evolve
> >> >----- Original Message ----- From: "RJLCyberPunk" 
> >> ><cyberpunk at prtc.net>
> >> >To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> >Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:06 PM
> >> >Subject: [Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or 
> NextCoCo project 
> >> >thatBjork was heading?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As far as I remember, and Bjork can correct me, for years 
> the CoCo 4 
> >> project never made it past the to-do list.  My question since day 1
> >> was: who was actually going to do the doing part?
> >
> > I think it was on the surface a good idea and I wish that 
> it was acted on. 
> > The
> > coco on an fpga project would have made a natural hardware platform 
> > for it. Oh well.
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