[Coco] [!! SPAM] Re: Cococompatible monitors...

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:07:17 AM Joel Ewy did opine:

> On 07/05/2011 09:04 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 09:50:20 AM John Kent did opine:
> >> On 5/07/2011 3:36 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> >>> And this DE1 board I assume has a cost of?  URL please John.
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers, gene
> >> 
> >> Terasic DE1 is here:
> >> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?No=83
> > 
> > No doubt capable, but way too big to hide in a cc3 unless the whole
> > coco was emulated.
> > 
> >> It uses an Altera Cyclone II.
> >> It's what Gary uses for his CoCo3FPGA.
> >> 
> >> He has also used the Digilent Spartan 3 starter board in the past too
> >> using the Xilinx 1000Kgate Spartan 3
> >> http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3BOARD
> > 
> > That maybe could be hidden under the keyboard.  With a vga output no
> > less.
> 
> I can attest to the fact that the Digilent Spartan 3 board will
> comfortably fit in a CoCo 3 case:
> http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/an-old-case-for-a-new-coco/
> 
Now that is, as they said 100 years ago, cooking with gas.  But I didn't 
see a disk drive?  Did you figure on drivewire doing all that?

> > Would I have to run the development system on windows?  If yes, no
> > deal.
> 
> The software runs under Linux.  It's a 970M download.

Great, not a problem as I have 4 terrabytes of drives here.  URL?

Thanks Joel. 

Cheers, gene
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