[Coco] COCO Video

[Sean]

Someone did this for the video chip in TI's/Colecovision/MSX, drop-in FPGA
replacement with VGA out.
I have seen a Colecovision running with one in person, very nice.

http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All this recent talk about graphics has me thinking that in my view I would
> like to create some thing to "replace" the VDG IC in the coco so that it
> connects directly to a VGA monitor.  Not having a COCO 3, this means a
> replacement for the MC6847.  In my mind I envision a daughter card the
> connects pin for pin where the MC6847 is and the output would be a VGA or
> HDMI connector.  The daughter card would mimic all the functionality of the
> MC6847, no more no less, and allow modern TV/monitor to be utilized.
>
> Sure I realize that it is easy to add functionality, more colors better
> resolution, but then the CoCo is no longer a CoCo IMHO.
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