[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[mike delyea]

Add to the above a serial port.


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>wrote:

> * High Speed Serial port
> * Parallel Printer Port
> * Coco-Max Compatible Hi-Res Interface
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mark J. Blair
>
>
> I was just daydreaming about what an ideal cartridge for my CoCo 3 might
> do. This is what I came up with:
>
> * Floppy drive controller for real floppy drives.
>
> * Battery-backed real time clock.
>
> * Hard drive emulation using SD or CF for storage.
>
> * DECB-compatible ROM. I'm not sure whether the ROM would support hard
> drive access from Basic, or if it would just provide a command to boot an
> operating system from the virtual HD much like the DOS command for booting
> from floppies. Or maybe it would look just like an original FD-502 with a
> normal DECB ROM, but the virtual HD and other functions would appear to the
> CoCo as other cartridges plugged into an emulated Multi-Pak Interface?
>
> I'm just thinking out loud. I wonder what other folks would want in their
> ideal CoCo cartridge?
>
>
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