[Coco] Looking for a ROM bin

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 12:06:08 EDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis,
>
> The problem is the 6551's they use are pretty scarce. Good for a project if
> you want your own drive pak.
>

Beyond being (possibly? :) difficult to acquire, the 6551 is slooooow
as molasses.

Why stick a 115kbps serial port in between the Coco bus/ram which can
do about 6Mb/s in ideal situations (if i recall discussions correctly,
might be a bit off but it is in the multiple Mbps range)  and the SD
card which can do a minimum of 16Mbps?

I would love to see an SPI interface for the Coco, then we could do SD
cards and lots of other stuff properly.



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