[Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

[Al Hartman]

This is schematic for the cartridge.

http://www.bighole.nl/pub/mirror/homepage.ntlworld.com/kryten_droid/coco/coco_tm_37.png

Cloud9 used to sell Drivewire cartridges, and they do come up on eBay from 
time to time.

But, if you look at the size of the file that you need to burn to ROM in 
this file.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/drivewire.zip

It's only 8k, which will fit into a ROM pack fine.

You could buy any game, remove the soldered in ROM, install a socket and 
patch any missing lines according to the schematic, and off you go!

If someone wants to produce cartridge PC boards that will fit a standard 
cartridge case, I'll buy a bunch!

Al

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Osborn
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:01 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

Where would I get a cartridge that I can put my own EPROM into? Just some 
random game from eBay and replace the ROM inside? Will most take a 27xx 
EPROM or would they need to have traces rerouted because the stock ROM has a 
different pinout?

On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Al Hartman wrote:

> You can load the software from tape, as the demo on Youtube shows. But, 
> it's even better to burn an EPROM and put it in a cartridge case for 
> instant loading.


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