[Coco] MicroSD Drive Pak

[Sean]

For anyone near the Milwaukee area, the event is the Midwest Gaming
Classic, March 27th and 28th.

http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/

I mentioned it last year as well.  (Wow, time sure flies).  Pretty
much every computer and game system that ever existed is represented
in the museum section.  Along with the Drive Pak, I'll also be using
the HawkSoft RGB to S-Video adapter, on a 24" LCD TV.  I must say it
works extremely well.  80 columns looks great on it!

Last year was a lot of fun, my CoCo setup ended up next to the C64 and
TI fans, so we spent all day razzing each other on who had the best
system, just like back in the 80's!

There are also tons of arcade and pinball machines there, all set to free play.




On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> Progress report on the Drive Pak:
>
> Ok, Sean Noonan is to be the first recipient of a 2GB MicroSD Drive Pak
> which is going out tomorrow morning.  He's going to demo it at some computer
> show so I encouraged him to post his feedback here on the list soon.
>
> I'm waiting on the new cases with slots to arrive soon.  The other boards
> will be here in less than a week.
>
> Sooner or later I need to make more sales in order to maintain my orders for
> the modules that I solder to the board.  All other parts are well in stock.
>  I think I have 20 pending orders which I'll try to knock out 2 or 3 per
> day, if that gives you an idea of when your pak is coming.
>
> It's been a long ride on this big project and getting the CoCoNet ROM ready
> to drop in a Drive Pak or Wireless Pak (or any 28-pin socketed pak for that
> matter).
>
> I think the whole CoCoNet thing might be confusing to some, so I wanted to
> explain it a little better:
>
> Just get the ROM in some pak of yours and you'll get any mix or match of
> 6551 drives, bitbanger drives, FDC drives, and Drive Pak drives, with DRIVE
> 0 being automatically assigned the most likely primary system depending on
> what paks you have inserted.  You get real disks and virtual disks any way
> the system detects you can support them.
>
> The Drive Pak has a bootable copy of NitrOS-9 on it, but I'm working to move
> it off of a 1.4m floppy image to a 30mb image to stock with lots of goodies.
> The 6551-bootable copy of NitrOS-9 is being examined by Robert Gault at this
> time in hopes to expand it to 30mb as well and go from there.
>
> If you've never turned on a CoCo and booted into NitrOS-9 over the air using
> only a small game-pak sized cartridge and no wires whatsoever, you're in for
> a treat.
>
> mix or match (only one pak needs the CoCoNet ROM):
> Drive Pak w/CoCoNet ROM
> Wireless Pak w/CoCoNet ROM
> EPROM Pak w/CoCoNet ROM
> your own pak w/CoCoNet ROM
>
> CoCoNet 1.0 will probably get some feedback for improvements, and I'll keep
> improving the client/server features over time, as well as add more Drive
> Pak features.
>
> How can you load your own stuff on a Drive Pak?  For one, you can use a
> bitbanger cable and just mount the PC-hosted disks you want to copy to the
> pak.  BACKUP # TO #.  Done.
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> ~ Roger Taylor
>
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