[Coco] Christmas Wish Device

[mike delyea]

My wish is for a cartridge with a hard drive controller with built-in
floppy controller so I can have both types of drive connected at once.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Paulo Lindoso <paulo.lindoso at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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