[Coco] COCO FPGA

[Becker, Gary]

SD storage is coming to the CoCo3FPGA. In one mode, disk images will appear to be floppy disks behind the standard floppy controller. Just as DW can be used today. Not sure when it will be finished. It depends on how much time I have over the holidays to work on it. The code is almost finished and I have started the debug process. So, look for it sometime in January 2012.

Everyone have a safe and happy holiday season.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe [mailto:aawolfe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 2:34 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO FPGA

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
>> I know first hand that Drivewire will go well into the future.
>
>
> Personally I don't like DriveWire because it doesn't work with software that
> accesses the disk hardware directly. That's not to take anything away from
> it, though...
>
>

On the CoCo3FPGA, DriveWire *does* work with software that accesses
the hardware directly, because the CoCo doesn't know it's using
DriveWire.  The stock DECB rom is running and talking to what it
believes is a stock FDC.

Funny enough, any storage option that did use the SD card would
probably not be so compatible, just as any of the hard drive/flash
storage options available to a real coco are not so compatible.