[Coco] CoCo-X is not dead

[Bill Loguidice]

The MCC-216 right now supports C-64, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Amiga ECS,
and Apple II, so yeah, it's pretty versatile. I have one (the S-VIDEO
version; there's also a VGA version), but I have to say, it's not
especially user friendly (at least for me). Once it's setup, though, it
works fine. It supports a standard mouse/keyboard and joystick. I'm not
sure how well these have sold. I suspect it would have sold far better if
it were a bit more user friendly and purpose the use case was clearer.
There's also of course the argument that all you're really doing here is
creating a purpose built emulation machine, and there's not much of a
market for that since you can do that easily enough on any PC or mobile
platform.

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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

> The FPGA Arcade board sounds good, but at 199 euros plus shipping ($261
> right now, plus S&H) it's a bit expensive. The MCC-216 sounds like the way
> to go -- $150 + S&H. If it will emulate an Amiga 500 it will emulate a
> CoCo3 easy enough, just have to develop the core. It's not going to support
> legacy hardware, but most legacy functions should be able to be built right
> in. I'd skip HD emulation and just go with Drivewire built in, and maybe
> floppy emulation for some compatibility issues. The Amiga uses a lot of
> memory -- 2 MB of Chip, 1 MB of Slow, 8 MB of Fast. So a CC3 emulation
> should support 4MB of memory. I think that's the most a hacked CC3 will
> support, or is 2MB the more practical limit?
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