[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Bill Loguidice]

I know this has been brought up before, but I have one of these:
http://www.mcc-home.com/  and it supports Atari 2600, Commodore 64,
Commodore Amiga, Apple II, and ZX Spectrum cores. Depending upon what
version that you buy/get (S-VIDEO or VGA), it only starts at $150 (and you
might be able to offer less):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MCC-216-AMIGA-C64-ATARI2600-ZX-Spectrum-255-C64-and-45-AMIGA-Games-Forever-/281244886863?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item417b80674f.
That's fully cased with software, cables, and a joystick. I do know
the
creator is always interested in having more cores developed for his
hardware. Again, I know this was discussed in the past, but I don't recall
the end result.

I don't think it's quite as powerful/flexible as the MIST, but I would
think that's one budget-friendly option. I seem to recall the "catch" from
an earlier discussion was that you couldn't really replicate the CoCo's
ports, but I wouldn't think that would necessarily have to be a deal
breaker per se. I also don't think these have sold in great numbers over
the past few years and a few of the cores have had one version and no
further development. The most developed cores are definitely for the 2600,
C-64, and Amiga.

-Bill

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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:31 AM, <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

> > Nick,
> >
> > Here's one source.  You need to also get the programming tools from
> Altera
> > to program the FPGA, but you'd need to do that with any solution.  There
> > are other sources as well.
> >
> >
> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=165&No=83
> >
> http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-board.html
> >
>
> Well, all this talk about the DE-1 got me interested.  So I went to
> buy one.  Price seemed nice.  But then they tacked on $30-$40 in
> shipping.  I buy from China all the time and have never paid that
> kind of shipping.  But, OK, I really wanted one.  So I get to checkout
> and it says PayPal all over the place.  Except where you actually pay.
> It will be a cold day in hell when I give an outfit like this my Credit
> Card number.
>
> You know what, once you get to the bottom line, the one from Europe
> doesn't look so expensive after all.  But at this point, I think I
> will just drop the idea entirely.  i was looking forward to running
> a couple of those systems and even learning to program an FPGA myself.
> But it looks like this is yet another of those ideas that is just not
> yet ready for prime time.
>
> bill
>