[Coco] FlashPak

[RETRO Innovations]

On 1/29/2021 8:13 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/27/21 12:36 PM, RETRO Innovations wrote:
>> On 1/27/2021 4:03 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
>>> Hi Jim
>>>
>>> Do you plan to offer any pre built FlashPaks for sale?
>>
>> I don't know yet.  The design is easy to assemble, but I don't 
>> typically solder up stuff here, I have it professionally assembled, 
>> and I'd probably cost reduce this design to a CPLD and a FLASH ROM IC 
>> for an assembled unit.  BUt, then, it might not be much cheaper than 
>> CoCoFLASH, so I'll have to consider it.
>>
>> I mainly wanted to come up with a simple design that folks could use 
>> in their solutions, or one could make themselves and use if they are 
>> looking to sell a game and would prefer to use FLASH instead of EPROM 
>> (EPROM designs are still the cheapest, I think).
>>
>
> Any chance PCB's will show  up on OSHPark?  :-)

Well, I typically sell them in my store, but the design is Open Source 
and the gerbers are sitting in the pcb directory on the repo, so I 
assume OSHPark cna take those and spin a board.

Jim