[Coco] Who is making a SD floppy emulator?

[Matthew D Stock]

I think there are at least a couple of us working on this type of 
project.  I believe Darren Atkinson's work was demoed at the most recent 
fest.  I believe there are a few commercial offerings as well, but using 
CF cards.

I am nearing completion of a device that will mimic both cartridges and 
a FDC, pulling images for both off of SD.  I am waiting for what I 
believe will be the final board design to be manufactured, and then I'll 
write the FD emulation microcontroller code.

Mine is designed more for experimenters, and the software and design are 
up on github.  I'll be selling completed and tested units for around $65 
each.  This design requires an external microcontroller to do the 
programming, but my sample code works with an AVR/Arduino.  If there's a 
lot of interest, I'll design the uC into the board, but I liked the idea 
of keeping things modular.

Let me know if you want to learn more.  Code is up at 
https://github.com/mattstock/cococpld.
   -Matt


On 6/14/2013 8:53 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> A couple of month's ago, someone made mention that they were making a 
> controller cart which used an SD drive acting as a floppy drive.
>
> The CoCo still talked to a floppy drive but it was actually writing to 
> SD.
>
> Can anyone tell me who this was?
>
> Nick
>
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