[Coco] Off Topic but neato "Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer causes big stir on launch day"

[Aaron Wolfe]

It is currently enhanced over CoCo3 in several ways:

25Mhz 6809 CPU
High speed drivewire w/ FD type interface (460kbps)
Additional video modes including hires 256 colors, possibly more,
haven't been following that closely
many "ease of use" things like built in orch90 and rompak library,etc

There has been discussion of a new MMU to replace the GIME and other
cool improvements.  The nice thing is that even if they aren't in
today's build, if they are designed all we do is write a new
"hardware" image to the FPGA and we've got a new MMU or whatever.

-Aaron



On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Steve Batson
<steve at batsonphotography.com> wrote:
> Aaron,
> Is it a CoCo 4 in that it's somehow enhanced over the the CoCo 3? Or is it
> just CoCo 3 running on different hardware? I'm asking because I don't
> really know much about the FPGA systems I keep see being mentioned.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:43 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Off Topic but neato "Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer
> causes big stir on launch day"
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Boisy G. Pitre  wrote:
>
>> The CoCo road is littered with ideas that have been voiced but not acted
> upon, and projects that have been started but never completed.
>>
>
> This is the crux of it for me.  The FPGA "Coco 4" exists right now,
> and I can turn it on and play right now.
> Every other coco4 idea is only theoretical, therefore FPGA wins by default
> :)
>
> -Aaron
>
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