[Coco] Coco Flash menu for coco1/2. Vs. Coco3

[Glen Hewlett]

Great stuff Rietveld!  Way to push it to the limits.

Cheers,
Glen

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Thanks to guys on this list patiently answering  my questions I was able to modify the flash menu program to PEEK the coco on startup to determine if the flash cart is running on a coco1 /2 or Coco3 . I also modified the menu to detect available memory size (4k-512k)
> If the cart detects a coco3 then the menu defaults to the full view of available games
> If the cart detects a coco1/2 it will further detect memory size and only display a menu  of flashed roms that will work with that model
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> ‎If I plug the cocoflash into one of my 4k grey case coco's the displayed menu of games will be very short
> ‎if I use a 16k coco the list gets bigger
> If I use a ‎ 64k model the list of available games grows even larger
> All the way up to a 512k coco3 with all rom paks(games) listed
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> As a side project I also added more speech support by announcing 'menu page up' 'menu page down' 'menu page first' and 'menu page last' ;because everyone loves a talkative coco :)
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