[Coco] Can a hardware based FPGA CoCo be made into a unit that can be attached as an USB device to your existing laptop etc.?

Roy Lores cyberpunk at prtc.net
Sat Aug 9 16:15:00 EDT 2014


After the excitement for the Fharfall project I have to ponder if 
perhaps it's time for someone to make an FPGA or similar CoCo hardware 
project that like the Chromecast fits nicey as a USB device has all the 
CoCo has to offer  but uses the video and sound hardware of whatever 
laptop etc it happes to be attached too.

If someone can make a relic CoCo cartridge today why not something like 
this? How feasible would it be?

The advantages of an actual hardware base CoCo that uses the video and 
sound of a host computing device are obvious when compared to emulators 
that always have limitations on what they can run specially actual 
physical CoCo cartridges which  one could never run on an emulator could 
potentially run through the use of a USB adapter.

If this succeeds it  may not stop with the CoCo anything from Atari to 
N-64 maybe run this way.


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