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How to Build a Matchbox CoCo

Roger Taylor6 years ago9 months ago

Matchbox CoCo

An all-hardware accurate CoCo 3 clone hosted on the DE0-Nano FPGA board.

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RealCoCo Quick Reference

Roger Taylor6 years ago5 years ago02 mins

TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer 3 FPGA Clones by Roger Taylor Custom GIME implementation designed from the ground up The most accurate CoCo clones available Virtal floppy disks and hard drives via CyloneSDC/WD1793 FDC hybrid controller Up to 2MB CoCo RAM with FPGA boards that have an SDRAM chip Up to 128KB program paks with FPGA boards…

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How to Build a Matchbox CoCo

Roger Taylor6 years ago9 months ago016 mins

The Matchbox CoCo is a Do It Yourself CoCo 3 clone that may or may not be offered by third parties fully assembled or by snap-together components.  This is not a Tandy or Radio Shack product, but you are welcome to customize your own system with Tandy or Radio Shack logos for cosmetic purposes. Before…

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Tandy Joysticks for the DE0-Nano

Roger Taylor6 years ago6 years ago03 mins

The NanoLog daughter board is a daughter board for the bottom of the DE0-Nano to allow the use of regular or Deluxe CoCo joysticks on the MATCHBOX COCO. There are 2 CoCo joystick ports, 3 audio channels, and 1 user header for a total of 8 ADC inputs. This 2-layer board can be ordered from…

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NanoMate Board for the DE0-Nano

Roger Taylor6 years ago7 months ago014 mins

For the Matchbox CoCo, the CoCo’s logic completely resides on the DE0-Nano board.  Realistically jumpers can be strung from the DE0-Nano headers to give the system the things it needs to be complete, but ideally you’d want some of that to be very close to the main board, and for the sake of compactness alone…

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