[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Mark Marlette]

At 03:20 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:

NitrOS-9 is too large for the 8k ROM segment in the FLASH. What it was 
intended for was to have a boot ROM, like HDB-DOS to autoboot to your 
custom device. So you you could have NitrOS-9 on a CF and then have it boot 
at powerup. Takes about 5 seconds from power up, HDB-DOS, NitrOS-9 boot. 
Almost as fast as the NitrOS-9 ROM kit but it is WAY more configurable and 
no limits on OS9boot size like in the ROM kit.

Mark


>Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>>SuperIDE is a polled device, no IRQ's.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>EPROM programmer, hard to compete with the MSDOS world.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>
>>Quoting Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Here are a few ideas.
>>>
>>>- 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.
>>>
>>>- 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?
>
>
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