[Coco] Get those hard to find disks...

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Michael Robinson wrote:

> http://www.thesvd.com/SVD/index.php
>
> is interesting, but a little spendy unfortunately.
>
> Now then, my deluxe joystick could be replaced...
>
> By the time I buy a floppy drive and 50 disks for
> it, I'm closing in on the SVD.  Would the SVD work
> with Gauntlet II?  Does the IBM feed it the data over
> a serial link or is there onboard memory?

The SVD has 256KB of on-board memory.  You download entire images to it 
from the PC.  Be aware that the SVD cannot emulate DS or HD diskettes due 
to the limited RAM.

The original developer seems to have abandoned the project, but I'm 
hopeful that Les (who makes the units being sold on eBay) or someone else 
can upgrade the design.



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