[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Ash]

Mark Marlette wrote:

>SuperIDE is a polled device, no IRQ's.
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>Why do you have an MPI anyway? Are you constantly coping files from the
>floppy to the CF? We run without the MPI all the time. Only when you
>want to add files to it and aren't DriveWire'd up that we have to add
>the floppy back in.
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>FLASH, is in the SuperIDE and can flash ROMs, whatever into any of the
>four available ROMs in the SuperIDE. Now they are 8k in size. The
>larger games won't work. I have a pak already designed that will have
>16k ROMs and could have 16 ROM pak games in one pak, software
>selectable, all FLASHable.
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>EPROM programmer, hard to compete with the MSDOS world.
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>Mark
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>Quoting Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com>:
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>>Here are a few ideas.
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>>- A kit to install the SuperIDE under the motherboard.  How about
>>something
>>with a PAL chip or similar that can also re-route IRQ signals?  I
>>wouldn't
>>mind installing a switch on the back of the coco to choose the 'slot'
>>. This
>>would free-up the cartridge slot. I would love to get the MPI out of
>>there,
>>since it takes so much room on my desk.
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>>- How about an eprom/flash programmer that can program chips
>>compatible with
>>the coco roms?
>>
>>-Ben
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Mark does that mean that nitros9 could be flashed to one of the roms for 
booting up and running other Nitros9 modules from the ide drive? Does 
the ide controller handle cdroms also?