[Coco] Coco4?

[mike delyea]

My wish for a Coco 4 is a Coco 3 with a single cartridge with the floppy
controller and a hard drive controller (or flash drive) and a real serial
port.  Thats all.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi James!
> All interesting ideas.  What do you think about my Kipper computer design?
> I sent you an email on N8VEM about it.  Here is the link again just in
> case.
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
> Of course I'm not sure what your design entails nor what your goals are,
> but
> I'm definitely willing to collaborate on design ideas and maybe
> co-collaborate on coming up with a 6309 based multiprocessing beast of a
> computer.  I'd really like that a lot.  Take care my friend.
> Kip
>
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>
> >FPGA is definitely the only way a true CoCo4 could be made.
>
> >A CoCo3+ is more achievable as a base CoCo3 with an enhancement of some
> kind.
>
> >I think the most useful would be some sort of CPU acceleration.
>
> >Also, maybe something that also incorporate a 15Khz upscaler to drive
> >LCD monitors.
>
> >Nick
>
> All good ideas from someone who has weighed in on this before.
> Right now, one thing I have been working on in my design is trying to
> incorporate a second CPU as an I/O processor and to facilitate DMA.
> I like those last two ideas Nick mentioned.
>
> Isn't there already someone building a VGA adapter?
> And, since we sort of max out at around 3.58 MHz (and even that isn't
> practical with the rest of the components unable to run synchronized at
> that
> speed), I guess you are back to an FPGA.
>
> If someone builds a decent 6309 core, that would be a nice start.
>
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