[Coco] Christmas Wish Device

[Robert Hermanek]

I'm not familiar with the SuperIDE but I know it has a CF slot, right?  Is
the CF card exposed in some direct fashion via registers/etc like I
described below, or do you have to access it through disk controller
functions as a disk device?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paulo Lindoso" <paulo.lindoso at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Christmas Wish Device


> 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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