[Coco] Looking for a ROM bin

[Brian Blake]

For a bit of depth on the slowness Aaron mentioned, and I mentioned in 
another thread, check out this forum post:

http://tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=78

A lot of numbers were pulled using a real world application - Sock 
Master's Donkey Kong.

As for availability, when I WAS looking, them being scarce was my 
experience at that time. Many place who had them listed, didn't actually 
have stock.
To get ten of them, I had to buy from three different vendors. Roger was 
worried that he wouldn't be able to find enough units to continue making 
the packs and I could see why at the time.

And I'm with Aaron on the SPI.


Brian



On 10/11/2013 12:06 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> 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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