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Deluxe Color Computer
Deluxe Color Computer
Pre-Production Boards
Three pre-production (PP) boards for the canceled Deluxe Color Computer exist:
- Boisy Pitre has gathered two of the Deluxe pre-production boards, one from Microware and one from Greg Zumwalt which did not have Advanced or Deluxe ROMs.
- Brian Weiseler has Robert Kilgus' Deluxe with Advanced Color BASIC 00.00.07 ROMs intact
Hardware
The Deluxe Color Computer upgrades the Color Computer 2 to include new hardware and software features
- Motorola 6847 T1 Video Display Generator (VDG) with true lowercase and lowercase descender characters
- General Instruments AY-3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator the same as Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A), Symphony-12, Philharmonic-12, or CoCo PSG
- AMI S6551P Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) the same as the Deluxe RS232 Pak
- Additional circuitry for 60Hz timer interrupts
- Additional color burst control
- Additional address decoding to make the PSG and S6551 into the CoCo memory map
Software
The Deluxe Color Computer contains an upgraded Color BASIC which merges Color BASIC, Extended Color BASIC, and Disk Extended Color BASIC into a single 32K Advanced Color BASIC ROM image.
Advanced Color BASIC includes a number of new features as well: