[Coco] MegaCart thoughts (was: Re: Utility of large MPI)

RETRO Innovations go4retro at go4retro.com
Wed Feb 3 20:43:41 EST 2016


On 2/3/2016 9:13 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
>   My thoughts/ramblings.
>
>   It is fairly easy to implement a SD/MMC interface using SPI if emulating a floppy controller is not required. If floppy emulation is desired then it becomes more complex, however floppy emulation is necessary to run many pieces of software since they access the floppy controller directly.
I agree.  If compatibility was not required, lots of stuff would be easy 
to design.  But, if it is not compatible, few want to bother with it 
until someone else modifies the apps, and the people who can modify the 
apps tend to have zero interest in doing so because there are no users.

Jim



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