[Coco] Semigraphics modes examples

[Dave Philipsen]

There's a drivewire disk available (I believe it's on sourceforge) that 
will boot you right up in NitrOS9 on the CoCo3 FPGA.  It's very easy if 
you know how to use drivewire.

Dave


On 8/5/2015 5:51 PM, Salvador Garcia wrote:
> Is documentation available on how to get NitrOS9 up and running on the CoCo3 FPGA?
>
>
> Thanks, Salvador
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 11:20 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Semigraphics modes examples
>
>
> You can buy a DE-1 (FPGA development board) for $156 + tax & shipping.
> It has
> 512K SRAM, 4M Flash, 8M SDRAM, VGA, RS232, PS/2, Audio Codec, SD
> card slot and
> two expansion ports.  There is more than enough logic on
> the board to
> synthesize a CoCo 3, Apple II/e, Commodore, etc.
>
> I am mostly interested in
> running NitrOS9 and this board does it well.
> You know how fast a 1.89 MHz CoCo
> 3 is. Just imagine a computer running
> 13 times as fast and you have the CoCo 3
> FPGA! Now, it's true that there
> are a few games which may not run on the CoCo 3
> FPGA but let's try to
> identify the problems and see if the developer will
> correct them.  I
> have personally seen a bunch of stuff that runs well on it
> (including
> games) and it's just a great platform for NitrOS9.  A version was
> just
> released recently that now supports the SD card under N-OS9. A program
>
> called 'megaread' measures disk (storage) performance. Drivewire at
> 115.2k
> completes megaread in around 96 seconds (YMMV).  The SD interface
> on the CoCo3
> FPGA board with CPU core running at 25 MHz completes it in
> about 3.5
> seconds!
>
> On , Stephen Robinson wrote:
>> It is also still more expensive to buy
> a FPGA board than an original
>> CoCo3 anyway right? so there still is probably
> not that much
>> motivation, except as insurance for the future.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug
> 1, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>> On
> 2/08/2015 1:11 PM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>>>> Which software specifically
> can you not run that you would like to?
>>>> The latest can be found at:
>>>> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoCo3FPGA
>>>>
>>>> Dave Philipsen
>>> I remember trying all my CoCo3 games I wrote and none worked (Rupert
>>>
> Rythym,
>>> Space Intruders, Pacman, Gate Crasher)
>>>
>>> I remember trying some
> others and they too failed.
>>> I'll set it up again and try the newest
> firmware.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
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