[Coco] CoCo monstrosity |was: [OT] Atari 8-bit video card

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as a cartridge it would work on coco2 :)

probably its vram would be banked to allow access to it from xC000 so we could have mmu on coco 2 too :)

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On 2013-06-17, at 5:53 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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> 1) It will neccesitate a multipak to have both the disk controller/disk basic cart and the video cart. A very inelegant design... but I say that as someone who has always detested the multipak interface.  :)
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> 2) by offloading to a video cartridge for output, an option to double the clock speed can be had. The current problem in doubling the clock is that the GIME's video loses sync. A seperate video cart will not matter if it goes out of sync. If switching to the new video also switches in a 4Mhz mode, then switching back could restore to 1.79Mhz.
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> Worth thinking about.
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> Maybe a non cartridge based solution? (external)
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> 
> Nick
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