[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Mark Marlette]

At 03:44 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:

james,

By saying that you could have just as well said that you can boot 
NitrOS-9/OS-9 from anything depending on how much code you want to write.

;)

Mark


>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:
>
>Date sent:              Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:20:48 -0700
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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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