[Coco] micro drive configuration

[Sean]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

> At 11:40 PM 10/13/2009, you wrote:

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>> Roger,

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>> While I think I understand what it is that you're trying to do I

>> don't completely understand the need. These days CF and SD cards are

>> stupidly cheap and for a coco so large as to be a waste of space. Could

>> you really fill up a 1gig card with nitros software or data?

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>> I'm not sure if it's worth rewriting coco disk basic and the nitros

>> drivers over.

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> Already done.  It was worth it.

>

> Btw, I can click Go and build it all in seconds now that it's a Rainbow IDE

> project.  6551 boot module, NitrOS-9 virtual hard drive image, CoCoNet

> EPROM, etc.  The CoCoNet ROM builder actually assembles the patch for Disk

> BASIC and overlays it on an existing copy of Disk BASIC like it was LOADM'ed

> on the real CoCo.  Thanks to CCASM and Rainbow IDE, I've pretty much

> streamlined the process, give or take a few snags.

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This is starting to sound like the ultimate pak I would like to have
for the CoCo:  Stick a $20 CF card in it, and be able to pick from
Disk Basic or an OS9 install.   The disk basic side would have a ton
of virtual drives available (or an easy way to mount images located
elsewhere), the OS-9 side would have a good sized 'hard drive'.
(though my old hard drive was 20 meg and I probably had it 10% full,
even aftering pilfering Delphi and BBSes for everything I want)
Combine that with a way to transfer files to the CoCo with a terminal
program or the CoCoNet software, and you could do everything with one
pak that once would have required a multi-pak, a floppy drive, a hard
drive interface, and an RS-232 pak.

I'd be willing to pay up to $200 for such a device!  It would make my
demos at the classic gaming conventions very easy and awesome.