[Coco] COCO FPGA

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Thu Dec 22 21:00:31 EST 2011


The coco3fpga connects to a computer via drivewire so things like the
SuperIDE, and other floppy controllers aren't of much use.

The Other Frank

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 03:39:40PM -0800, Tony Cappellini wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:35:38 -0600
> From: Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO FPGA
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <20111222173538.GD25881 at warlock.deepthought.com>
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> 
> >>With a good way of storing and accessing a bunch of rom packs from the
> flash
> >>rom on the fpgacoco3 there's little need for an expansion port or mpi.
> 
> Rompacks aren't the only thing people plug into the expansion slot, right?
> The SuperIDE controller comes to mind, not to mention the No-Halt floppy
> controller from Tony DiStefano.
> I used to have the BurkN-Burke adapter, as well as Disto's 2MB Ram Disk
> cartridge.
> 
> Who knows, there may be other hardware plugins in the works in the future.



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