[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Depending on how much you want to re-write the booter code. OS9 
can be made to boot and run from say a 4 megabit flash rom. 

Perfect example is the Pagewriter 2000 by Motorola. That uses a 
version of OS9 for the 68000 processor. The Pagewriter uses a 
Dragonball (MC68328EZ) processor and two 8 megabit flash roms 
and two 512k by 8 staic rams. The display is a 1/4 VGA (320x192) 
fully graphics monchrome LCD. 

james

On 26 Jan 2005 at 14:20, Ash wrote:

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> Mark Marlette wrote:
> 
> >SuperIDE is a polled device, no IRQ's.
> >
> >Why do you have an MPI anyway? Are you constantly coping files from
> >the floppy to the CF? We run without the MPI all the time. Only when
> >you want to add files to it and aren't DriveWire'd up that we have to
> >add the floppy back in.
> >
> >FLASH, is in the SuperIDE and can flash ROMs, whatever into any of
> >the four available ROMs in the SuperIDE. Now they are 8k in size. The
> >larger games won't work. I have a pak already designed that will have
> >16k ROMs and could have 16 ROM pak games in one pak, software
> >selectable, all FLASHable.
> >
> >EPROM programmer, hard to compete with the MSDOS world.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >Quoting Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com>:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Here are a few ideas.
> >>
> >>- A kit to install the SuperIDE under the motherboard.  How about
> >>something with a PAL chip or similar that can also re-route IRQ
> >>signals?  I wouldn't mind installing a switch on the back of the
> >>coco to choose the 'slot' . This would free-up the cartridge slot. I
> >>would love to get the MPI out of there, since it takes so much room
> >>on my desk.
> >>
> >>- How about an eprom/flash programmer that can program chips
> >>compatible with
> >>the coco roms?
> >>
> >>-Ben
> >>
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> Mark does that mean that nitros9 could be flashed to one of the roms
> for booting up and running other Nitros9 modules from the ide drive?
> Does the ide controller handle cdroms also?
> 
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