[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[Simon Jonassen]

My ideal cart would probably be a 6581 sid chip plus a 6845 crt chip....

/Simon :-)
 

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Sendt: 29. oktober 2013 20:14
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Emne: Re: [Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> Someone mentioned they wouldn't want to use another computer as a 
>> server. Well, build the server on a cartridge, and have the cart work 
>> like a serial port. The server software could be pre-loaded, and 
>> could be transparent to the CoCo. An RPi could be used, but there are 
>> other small ARM based computers that would work, some smaller than 
>> the RPi (but a bit more costly). Maybe build an entirely new board, 
>> stripping the unnecessary functions of the RPi...
>
> Now that brings up even more ideas.  How fast would DriveWire be if 
> the interface were parallel instead of serial?  RPi in a cart talking 
> directly to the bus hosting DriveWire and all the bells and whistles 
> that gets you. :-)

I believe Boisy already has done all that. He hooked up an Arduino, talking
DriveWire over the cartridge bus (parallel). HDB-DOS includes support for
this DriveWire interface. See Boisy's mails about it and his blog.

Tormod

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