Talk:CoCoDEV
This is fascinating but without the GIME and all the rest is it really a CoCo? Well, not a CoCo3 anyway. What's wrong with emulation? It's done well for other older systems.
On the other hand, if you made this so that you can use CoCo BASIC to control home automation or other neat things, all other lack of CoCo fidelity could be overlooked. Then there could be sensors and things being turned on/off, timers and all manner of useful things. Control systems patched into a typical patch panel and wiring distributed around the home. It would be WONDERFUL to see that all managed in Basic09.
--Daniel (AKA ErRoNeUs or DrWunderbar or whatever else I called myself back in those days! :) )
That keyboard thing. You've just GOT to get real USB on there. Gotta make a translator interface somehow. I've heard there are ways people are using ROM data to actually make it work somehow where a keyboard sends its USB serial data for key actions, it would get captured and then get used as an address within a ROM which then output the ONs and OFFs needed for old style keyboard interactions. The ROM becomes a lookup table while the USB data might need to be processed by something to create the address. May require some thought though. There are key down and key release states in there. And such keyboard interfacing could extend to remote access usage making it far more terminal friendly.
UPDATE:
Visit this video to show an arduino device made just for adapting matrix keyboard thingies over to USB.
