28 Jan
2006
28 Jan
'06
9:04 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Rumor has it that Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel may have
mentioned these
words:
By redesigning a functional equivalent, or by deprocessing a failed chip?
The first is perfectly OK and feasible, the second one is a major work.
Things are simpler for a 20 years old design, but still....
Jos
If you meant to say : I want to repair this
machine which has a broken
unobtainable vlsi chip, then forget it . A oneoff copy of a vlsi chip
in a FPGA is just plain too much work.
With all due respect, *please* keep that attitude away from the Tandy
Color Computer List! :-O
There are people doing *exactly that* to try to keep our beloved CoCo3's
running once the GIME chip start giving up the magic smoke in quantity.