[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Coco 4 project dead?

[thebig_a_27]

Last I heard Steve talk about it, several months back now, he was taking a new approach towards some of the same goals but in a different form that wouldn't be a new computer.

That is not the only project around, however.  Depending on what your concept of a "CoCo 4" is, you may find that it is already available.  Several of us have been exploring Gary Becker's CoCo3FPGA project.  Although technically it says "3" in the name, this is a machine that runs at 25 Mhz, has built in VGA output and stereo sound (and soon, SD card reader for removable storage.. right now it uses DriveWire, although at a blazing 460kbps).  It can store lots of ROM images and switch between them, it has 8MB ram onboard that isn't yet in play but may be someday (512k is available now)... there are new graphics modes, new I/O capabilities to explore.. I'm probably forgetting as many cool things as I've remembered, but hopefully you get the idea.  This thing is a blast, and it exists now and works great right now. 
There are some limitations which are quickly falling away as Gary makes it even better, but the system is extremely capable already.

Here is the yahoo group for what I definitely call my "CoCo 4".
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoCo3FPGA/



--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Ben Jimenez <ben_jimenez at ...> wrote:
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> Just wondering if the coco 4 project is dead. I see the coco4.com website is still up, but nothing new about the project for such a long time.
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