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…
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…
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…
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…
How To Build A MiST CoCo Get the CoCo 3 core for your MiST-compatible device There are several MiST-compatible boards/kits. Each has one its pros and cons, but in general all are extremely powerful systems capable of implementing as chip logic many consoles and computers. In my opinion, due to the constant breaking of the…
The Mr CoCo is a Tandy Color Computer 3 clone that runs on the MiSTer system. CoCo Clones Quick Reference Using just one file copied to the MicroSD card on the MiSTer system, you can own an accurate representation of the popular Color Computer 3. Add thousands of virtual floppy disks from the CoCo archives…
An illustrated review of Luis Antoniosi’s RGB2VGA converter This is a personal review of the RGB2VGA video converter designed by Luis Antoniosi. First, let me say that it is high time that the CoCo community get some real quality video and experience the CoCo in a new way. Numerous people have attempted to make various…
In addition to my popular Matchbox CoCo 3 and Mr (MiSTer) CoCo 3 clones, I’ve accepted the offer to port my CoCo 3 core to the MiST system. To follow my progress live, visit the MiST CoCo facebook group. In 2019 after I was asked by several people if I would port the CoCo 3…
Luis Antoniosi just thrust the entire CoCo community into the modern computer world by giving the CoCo 3 a way to use a VGA monitor! Luis has been working on this project for several years and seems to be constantly trying to improve the quality. Make no mistake – this is THE RGB-to-VGA converter that…
Disclaimer: NitrOS-9 is one of the most unorganized yet rewarding operating systems for the CoCo. There are literally 200 versions or revisions of every kernel, module, driver, command, source file, and the chances of you getting it all together properly so it works with Your hardware greatly depends on Your deep knowledge of the system…