[Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???

[Bill Pierce]

Darren, the flash roms would be cool. Then we could do a modified HDBDOS for your card and have DW4 on a Pi inside as well. I'd be lost without DW when I'm here at home (DW midi, net access etc), but a simple cart with massive storage would make the Coco very portable. Now we need a good 10-13 inch battery operated (or low voltage) monitor that would mount on the back edge of the Coco and fold down for transport. Even better.. mount Roy's interface inside and use a 10-13 inch LCD with VGA. It's seems I've seen low power portable models for the project boards. I know some are using smaller, but Ilike to see clearly and not squint :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 8:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> Darren, a couple of questions on the SDC interface...
> What Roms are you planning to support (DECB, HDBDOS etc)?
> And, will you be supplying the roms with the cart?
> Or, will it require (or work with) an MPI with exsisting controller?
>

Not sure yet.  Perhaps just a modified version of DECB with commands
to select the desired DSK files.  In the final design, I plan to use
Flash memory that can be re-programmed by the CoCo.

Darren

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