[Coco] Just another peek...

[Barry Nelson]

 How about making the SD card look like a CoCoSDC interface in hardware and use that floppy ROM? Then you can swap images, etc, from the CoCo side and you have full support for DECB and NitrOS9. Plus maybe you could implement the flash support too. It would work with copy protected and non standard disk images too, just like the CoCoSDC does. The CoCoSDC floppy rom even has some DriveWire support, and if you implement the flash, then you could put HDBDOS in slot 2 like I did on my CoCoSDC and get full drivewire support.

On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:44 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:55:44 -0500
> From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Just another peek...
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> Yes, that's a good point. Continue to use stock ROMs and intercept the 
> FD interface to communicate with the SD card. There are perhaps two 
> problems I see with that: first, it is probably a lot of work for Gary 
> to add the support not only for Drivewire but now for an SD card too.  
> Second, Drivewire has it's own interface on the PC by which you can swap 
> disks in and out.  The 'behind-the-scenes' FD to SD card translator 
> wouldn't necessarily have that without some extra software somewhere.  
> It is a good thought, however, and I'll have to bounce around some ideas 
> over on the other forum and see what we come up with.
> 
> Dave