[Coco] Coco mini

[Patrick Ulland]

If we'd only grabbed all those NOS PC Jr (Kraft Deluxe) joysticks when 
Computer Reset was sold off.

-ricku

On 4/19/2024 5:00 PM, Christopher R. Hawks via Coco wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:50:01 -0500
> Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Apr 19, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Joshua Harper via Coco
>>> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi there guys hey just wondering, would it be possible to make a
>>> Coco mini that would allow people to play any of the Coco racks
>>> this files or tape files that actually don’t have a Coco a lot of
>>> game systems nowadays are coming out with a mini version to be able
>>> to just play the games and it would be kind of cool if There could
>>> be a Coco mini that would allow you to plug the joysticks to it and
>>> install or tape images. How hard do you think it would be to come
>>> up with something like this curious
>> It is certainly easy to kludge together a Raspberry Pi and make it
>> act as a CoCo emulator, and folks have 3-D printer enclosures that
>> look like CoCos, but without the real joysticks it’s not quite the
>> same as sitting at a CoCo.
>>
>> I think that would be key — a reproduction analog joystick (which
>> could then go to USB in to the emulator like the RetroGames Mini
>> devices do). That would be cool.
>>
>> 		— A
>>
>      I was thinking more along the lines of a deluxe joystick with a
> Raspi Zero inside (and an ADC board). Kinda like Jen Ellsworth's C64
> Direct-to-TV.
>
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft