[Coco] Coco Newby

[Mark Marlette]

At 03:03 PM 12/3/2003 -0800, you wrote:

David,

The SuperIDE board has CF slot built on it in a standard long case format. 
It is supplied with a case and has FLASH on board as well.

The SuperBoard has FLASH on it as well and is accessible in certain ways as 
is the SuperIDE's FLASH that allows you to boot as you would like into 
whatever you would like.

1. The 512k board we offer is set for the CoCo's 8 bit refresh. The new 
SIMMS have a 9 bit or larger refresh. You can put them in but they won't 
keep the memory refreshed. I have a replacement board already designed and 
the PAL logic ready to be debugged that will allow the 256k x 3 chips to be 
used in place of the 256k x 8 or 9 SIMMS currently. These SIMMS are VERY 
hard to locate these days. I have no plans to support larger memory other 
than on the SuperBoard. MMU has to be emulated in the CPLD and it you want 
more memory buy an existing Disto, Paul Barton board, or wait for the 
SuperBoard....yes it is coming......

2. Done on the SuperIDE and will be also done on the SuperBoard.

3. I have a design of this ready to be debugged as well. This will take the 
CoCo3's RGB and basically double it or buffer it and output it. This 
project WILL NOT move forward until the completion of the SuperBoard. I do 
this design work on my lunch time at work. This will be a REALLY neat 
device and I **should** be able to make it fairly inexpensive ie: around $80.

Hopefully this helps and stop by we have new and rebfurbished CoCo's. 
System setups are free when you purchase a system. With the release of the 
NitrOS package from Boisy, it is a BREEZE! NitrOS-9 of old to new is night 
and day difference. The work in that package has been polished and it is 
quite an awesome piece of work. Months of hard work, heck, years of hard 
work is now paying off in the ability to have all platforms the same.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9


>I'd like to thank all the people who replied to my initial query, including
>those by personal email.  It seems that opinion is united in having the 
>Coco be
>the basis of my education (well, this IS a Coco list!).
>
>My next step is to acquire a Coco!  One of the women of my family apparently
>threw out, quite unceremoniously, my original Coco2, software, Rainbow
>magazines, etc. (guess I should have moved my things out sooner).  I have no
>recourse but to buy a new Coco3 system (although my wife is going to 
>absolutely
>kill me for this).
>
>I'd like my Coco3 to be completely solid-state, i.e. I don't want moveable
>disks or cassettes, etc., and so I want to max out on RAM and FLASH, but I
>don't want a cluttered desktop.  I've been looking into the Cloud-9 site, and
>by golly, they seem to have a bundle of goodies.
>
>(1)  Is the 512k board able to take higher capacity SIMMS?  I've a quad set of
>4meg SIMMs from my old Mac IIvx that I think I can cannibalize.  If not, what
>memory expansion board allows for use of higher SIMMS or DIMMs?
>
>(2)  Is there an internal board that accepts FLASH Cards?  The Cloud-9 site
>states that they have a flash adapter for a "Glenside IDE" adapter.  Sounds
>expensive, complicated, and messy.  A direct internal adapter would be nice.
>
>(3)  Is there a VGA adapter?  Cloud-9 does not seem to mention a universal VGA
>adapter.  An acquaintance who is an MSX freak says that VGA adapter cables 
>have
>been available for MSX boxes forever.  Would it be possible to adapt their
>cable for the Coco?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Sincerely,
>David
>
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