[Coco] OT(ish): Emulated CoCo4... (was: Coco Digest, Vol 23, Issue 27

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that farna at att.net may have mentioned these words:

>Glad to see someone found a use for that book! Copies should be available 

>from Glenside CoCo Club, though I don't know if they had any more 

>produced. I just sent them the disk copies, but haven't got around to 

>getting them a copy of PageMaker 4 or 5 yet!


IIRC, I have PM5, 6, and 6.5 available -- I could convert that to whatever 
format you require, if you wish...


>Found this on the net today, thought someone might find it interesting:

>http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html

>IDE to Flash card adapters -- computer sees Flash card as a HD, just plug 

>into IDE controller cable as if a HD.


Those are easy to find... as already mentioned, Cloud-9 has 'em in stock...


>Same company also has some mini computers based on VIA chipsets.


As does this company: http://www.logicsupply.com/
A *lot* of dinky, dinky machines - some completely fanless so they're just 
as quiet as a CoCo!


>  Now if someone could modify MESS and an OS (is there Linux version of 

> MESS?) to auto boot and access everything this would make a great 

> "CoCo4", especially if NitrOS9 could be modified to run under the MESS/OS 

> emulator and still access all available memory.


I don't know how difficult it would be to modify NitrOS9 to access more 
than 2 Meg RAM... or if MESS can handle more than 2 Meg in the emulated 
6309/6809 core...

Anywho, so much for my offtopic rantings... ;-) Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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