[Coco] Looking for a ROM bin

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

While is a dead product the coconet schematics are freely available and the
circuitry is simple. In fact it uses a 3rd party solution for the SD mini
drive. Okay, is not the fastest device but is one you can build your own
either modifying a rs232 pak or from scratch.

 Hmmmm, what about porting HDB-DOS to use the drivePak SD ? :)



On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10/10/2013 2:15 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm surprised that anyone uses CoCoNet at all?  Isn't it a dead product?
>>
>> What features does it offer over DriveWire?  Seems like it only ever
>> aspired to be more-or-less the same thing to me...
>>
>> Just my $0.02...
>>
>> John
>>
>
> While it is a dead product, that doesn't mean it's totally useless - it
> may not serve a purpose for some people, but, the DrivePak was a very good
> product; I still use mine quite a bit.
> CoCoNet itself offered a few features I liked better then DriveWire 3,
> like the ability to access real floppy hardware, disk images on a PC and
> access to disk images on the DrivePak, all at the same time without having
> to restart with different ROMs. But, CoCoNet was an incomplete product and
> the lack of a server side disk swapping capability severely hurt it. Roger
> did release it for the 'community' to take further, but, nobody took him up
> on the offer, AFAIK...
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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