[Coco] 8GB MicroSD Drive Pak

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Wed Aug 24 17:22:55 EDT 2011


On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 05:20:29 PM Sean did opine:

> And I still remember thinking back in the day: "Wow, a 20 meg hard
> drive?  I'll never be able to fill that up!"
> 

Chuckle, Sean.  I thought that too, but I was only 2-3 years filling it up, 
so a 120 was its replacement.  Now I have a pair of 1Gb's, but there is not 
enough activity now to ever fill them.

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Steven Flock <madgun68 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just as a side note, I converted that hard drive image of games over
> > to the pak a while back, and have been running through the disks in
> > my spare time.
> > 
> > Anything not running on my Coco 3 is flagged and an attempt to locate
> > a working replacement is made. (I have noticed that at least some
> > that won't run on my machine also will not run on VCC. An example of
> > this is Mr. Dig, which is one of the games I have not found a good
> > replacement for.)
> > 
> > I'm about 3/4 of the way through the disks. After that, there are
> > games to add from other sources.
> > 
> > Having a larger capacity will be quite nice. There's still a lot of
> > applications/utilities that could be put on the pak.
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Guillaume Major 
<gmajor at videotron.ca>wrote:
> >> I can't wait to receive mine! Once I get it, I will create an OS9
> >> partition with all the Sierra games.
> >> 
> >> Guillaume
> >> 
> >> "Roger Taylor" <taylor at newfoal.com> a écrit dans le message de
> >> news:20110824022229.**62C51D4C0F at qs281.pair.com...
> >> 
> >>  At 09:10 PM 8/23/2011, you wrote:
> >>>> Will mine be the 8 gigger?  Feel free to fill that card up.. plus I
> >>>> have a
> >>>> lot of .dsk stuff also
> >>> 
> >>> Yep, and I apologize for the delay, Richard.  I'll be adding lots
> >>> more disk images over time using the CoCoPak utility and I always
> >>> burn the latest card image before shipping.  You won't believe what
> >>> all is on the pak, and you can make it boot up into any game or
> >>> program causing it appear to be a ROM Pak if you just have to, for
> >>> good demo purposes anyway.
> >>> 
> >>> The MicroSD Drive Pak was highly undermined by the Cloud-9
> >>> gangsters, buty you'll know you got a hell of a deal when it
> >>> arrives.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
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