[Coco] Christmas Wish Device

Wed Dec 7 15:26:32 EST 2011

Sorry if I'm being dense (its a specialty of mine), but what is the
purpose of using compact flash etc as a "ramdisk" if you can already
use it as a regular disk with actual decb and os9 commands?  And what
is the purpose of having more than 512K of ram, if not to use it as a
ram disk?

There is some possibility the superIDE could be used in the way
desired, but I'm not sure.  You could certainly treat is as a linear
blob of 256 byte sectors without a filesystem.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Paulo Lindoso <paulo.lindoso at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I read the documentation, it acts as a disk device, but the rest
> of the community can jump in to help!
>
> Your idea is in a way much more interesting, specially if accompanied by
> some sort of RAMDisk implementation mixed up with RAM extension...  One
> could probably put ALL CoCo stuff in the "RAMDisks" and "transfer" them to
> RAM with simple DECB-like or OS-9-like commands...  It would be very cool.
>
> Cheers,
> Paulo.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>wrote:
>
>> 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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