[Coco] Coco "Flash2" cartridge progress

[Mark Marlette]

Mark,

No magic, jsut a good understanding of the CoCo. :)

After all these years the CoCo is still teaching me things. Like you  
are finding out.

We have all of the flash routines and flash pak already completed as  
the functions are the same as the capabilities of the SuperIDE.

All fun, that is what makes the CoCo today.

Mark

Quoting Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>:

> Hi,
>
> The CPLDs *finally* arrived from Digikey yesterday - had to ship them to
> Spain where my mother could bring them back to Australia...
>
> Some bad news: I got the pinouts wrong for both the reset button and the LDO
> regulator. The reset button should be a reasonably "neat" patch but the LDO
> is another matter...
>
> The good news is that the CPLD is operational - I can program it via JTAG
> and the registers appear to work. I can at least read/write the bank
> register and also set "stealth" mode in the control register.
>
> Next step is to code the "magic" for the flash programming. That'll be
> interesting because I'll be debugging my PCB design, my assembly skills and
> the CPLD code all at once!
>
> Regards,
>
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