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

[Nick Marentes]

 > 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.

Fantastic! It has similarities to the SuperIDE except that it uses 
hardware Floppy drive emulation.

My original wish (and I posted a detailed description on this list a few 
years back) was to include a Hard Drive utilizing the spare space left 
over on the SD card. (Who has 8/16Gb of CoCo DSK files?!!)

This would be for use under NitrOS-9... although I use my CoCo primarily 
as a standard Disk Basic system since my work is all RS-DOS based.

The cream on the cake was to also utilize the remaining SD card space as 
a sample buffer. Load sound samples that can be triggered to play via 
the cartridge PIC chip (my original design had started utilized a PIC 
chip to do the FD emulation).

So, it was a SD Floppy emulator, Hard Disk and Sound card in one compact 
game cartridge sized ROM Pak.

We all have dreams.   :)

Nick