[Coco] Christmas Wish Device

[Paulo Lindoso]

As for my wishlist, I have already ordered from Cloud9 my SuperIDE
interface which will hopefully fulfill my "quick 'n' dirty" two-way method
of exchanging files to and from my Mac... :)

Second on the list would come the RAM cartridge Robert suggests...
Excellent idea!  Actually made me want to dig out my electronics skills to
work out an initial hack...  Shouldn't be too difficult... Let me see if my
memory is still worth anything.

Third on the list...  I plugged my Coco3 (128K) on the Video/Audio input of
a standard LG LCD-TV.  Image is cool, but somewhat blurry, probably due to
resolution issues... Any ideas on how to improve that?

That's my wishlist... :)

Cheers,
Paulo.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>wrote:

> If I new anything about electronics I would build this myself.  Since I'm
> just a bonehead software developer, I'll post my idea.  There's a lot of
> talk about super IDE, coco net, blue tooth, this is all cool stuff.  I'd
> love something simpler, just a RAM cartridge.
>
> I'd like a cart that I can plug in, then plug flash memory into the cart,
> then access the flash memory as RAM via a few I/O registers.  In my mind
> the simplest thing would be setting an "address" using 4 bytes giving
> access to a 32 bit space, then when the "address" registers are set, either
> writing to the flash by setting a "value" register, or else reading the
> current value at your chosen address by reading the "value" register.
>
> And that's it.  I could plug a 1 gig CF or SD card into this thing and
> have all the "RAM" I could ever want.  I've done similar things like trying
> to access a drive through my TC^3 as a block of memory, but then you're
> jumping through disk controller hoops.  It would be much more fun to be
> able to just set the "address" registers and access the flash card as a
> continuous block of memory...  and it wouldn't even have to be flash, since
> that's persistent--maybe some kind of true RAM chips in the cart would be
> better?
>
> Somehow I doubt I'll find this in my stocking this year...
>
> -Robert
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