[Coco] Looking for Glenside IDE Controller documentation

[Ron Klein]

Hi Ed,

Wow.  I could call that critical mass for our Coco community!

Thanks for taking time to respond with that information, but aren't you
supposed to be working on more cool things for all of us?  :)

-Ron





On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The installed base for the CoCo SDC is approaching 400 units.
>
> - Ed
>
>
> > On May 24, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > My time has been limited, but should have some initial Cocovid
> > documentation sent you no later than next week.  I did poke around on
> > Darren's site regarding the CoCoSDC to see if there was source code to
> the
> > firmware (SDC-DOS).  The controller has the ability to read files from
> the
> > underlying file system on a SD card (FAT32) as it does this as part of
> the
> > modified "DIR" command and the "DRIVE" command so I believe using a
> CoCoSDC
> > would be possible with the Cocovid player.  While the CoCoSDC is very
> > popular, it may not be at the same installed base as Drivewire (which
> would
> > be another great option).  Not sure if the bandwidth would be there with
> > the bit-banger port to do a constant stream of video data without
> > interruption...
> >
> > I'm going to do my part to get this project "out there" again.  I'm
> really
> > hopeful others will enjoy your work and plan on pushing, er, "motivating"
> > you to provide that CoCoSDC support!  :)
> >
> > Thanks again for all your help in responding to my numerous emails to you
> > with various questions -- I really appreciated your patience with me!
> >
> > -Ron
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:22 AM, John W. Linville <
> linville at tuxdriver.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:01:32AM -0500, Ron Klein wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm hoping that others will find an interest in John's Cocovid player
> as
> >>> well.  I plan on sharing all the updated documentation soon (after John
> >>> reviews it) so it will be much easier for folks to get it up and
> running
> >>> quickly.  Perhaps others (with way more talent than I have) might find
> a
> >>> way to get it to work with the newer storage solutions and open this
> >>> project up to an even wider audience.
> >>
> >> I am certainly glad that someone has taken an interest in this project.
> >> I suspect that at least some of the lack of interest has been
> >> caused by my lack of interest in providing extensive documentation.
> >> Perhaps Ron's efforts will overcome that obstacle for some folks?
> >>
> >> If activity around cocovid warms-up, that might motivate me to support
> >> cocosdc or whatever else might be around the corner...we'll see!
> >>
> >> John
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