[Coco] FPGA CoCo's

[Bill Pierce]

Mark (and anyone else intersted), Joel Ewing did a blog on his CocoFPGA on a DE1. I'm not a hardware guy, so I don't know the specifics of his board and the model, but his is up and running and in a Coco case. All about it on his blogsite:
https://8littlebits.wordpress.com/category/coco3fpga/

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, May 21, 2015 10:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] FPGA CoCo's


On 22/05/2015 11:10 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote:

> Well, that's good to know. It's
a shame that Altera changed the memory and
> couldn't find a chip that is at
least compatible with the old one.

FTR the board is produced by TerASIC, not
Altera.

> Unfortunately, Gary doesn't publish the source and I'm not sure he
has time
> to keep up with it (although I don't know him personally nor have I
>
communicated with him).

He did publish some early source, though I don't recall
if that was for the 
DE1 or not. I ported an early version of his Xilinx-based
project to the DE1 
(older board) but that's very outdated now.

> Anyway, it
will be handy for other things IF I can get this stinkin SRAM
> figured out.  It
doesn't behave like most standard SRAMs and I frankly don't
> have that much
experience with VHDL to figure it out.

Yeah I'm not really sure what the issue
is as I have an older board.

Regards,

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