[Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:22:15AM -0400, Al Hartman wrote:
> This is schematic for the cartridge.
> 
> http://www.bighole.nl/pub/mirror/homepage.ntlworld.com/kryten_droid/coco/coco_tm_37.png
> 
> Cloud9 used to sell Drivewire cartridges, and they do come up on
> eBay from time to time.
> 
> But, if you look at the size of the file that you need to burn to
> ROM in this file.
> 
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/drivewire.zip
> 
> It's only 8k, which will fit into a ROM pack fine.
> 
> You could buy any game, remove the soldered in ROM, install a socket
> and patch any missing lines according to the schematic, and off you
> go!

Not _any_ game -- many/most of them do not use standard EPROMs.
 
> If someone wants to produce cartridge PC boards that will fit a
> standard cartridge case, I'll buy a bunch!

I also think this would be a nice item, if someone wants to produce
them...

John
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