[Coco] Looking for Glenside IDE Controller documentation

Tue May 24 13:35:27 EDT 2016

Hi Bill,

I appreciate you responding and trying to get in touch with Brian for me.
I had heard he was the person to talk to about the Glenside controllers and
sent him a private email on May 20th, but have not received a response.
Hopefully he will respond and have some good news about controller
availability.

I'm glad to hear there is some updated documentation, it's just a matter of
getting it now.  Everything you said makes sense and I especially like the
idea that the interface that's being "loaned" to me (thanks Camillus!) may
have a second cart connector so I won't have to bust out an MPI.  I'll know
soon as it's on its way to me, though I would still like to acquire a
controller for myself.  If I may ask, could you please share the
documentation and disk if you are able to obtain it?

Thanks again for the info!

-Ron

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
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> Ron, I have sent an email to Brian Goers who is heading up the Glenside
> IDE project. He posted a while back that a new setup disk and documentation
> was available, but never posted any links. I think he's been busy with
> other stuff and hasn't been monitoring the list much lately so he probably
> didn't see your request. Maybe he'll get back to me soon. I have a Glenside
> IDE and would like the new disk and docs as well.
>
> BTW, yes, there's a jumper to select between xFF50 and xFF70 range to
> avoid conflicts with other carts. I use mine with an MPI and FD-502
> controller and it works well (along with MIDIpak & Orch90 carts).
>
> The setup disk "should" help in setting up the drivers/descriptors as well
> as partitions. The old software did this but was out of date and didn't
> match the new SuperDriver for NitrOS9. I had to modify my descriptors
> manually to get them to work. From what I read, this has been resolved and
> the new setup software should be NitrOS9 3.3.0 compatible.
>
> The cool thing about the Glenside IDE are the 2 headers on the board for
> plugging in 2 carts. This was including as extra and may or may not be on
> your board. The holes for the headers are present, but the header
> connectors themselves were optional. Mine can with one installed and the
> second blank so I can plug the IDE board into a Coco with no MPI and also
> plug a disk controller into the board :-)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 24, 2016 10:01 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Looking for Glenside IDE Controller documentation
>
> Hi Jim,I wasn't exactly sure.  I figured there must be some documentation
> thatexplains how to use it in OS-9/NitroOS9, base address configuration (if
> youare using it along side of a floppy controller), etc..  Not even sure
> ifthere are any jumpers on the board as I don't have it just yet.
> Theschematics might be nice to have for it if you are willing to provide
> them.As an FYI for everyone -- I know there are more modern storage
> solutionsout there (i.e. CoCoSDC, Drivewire which I use) but needed a
> Cloud-9SuperIDE or Glenside IDE controller for use with John Linville's
> Cocovidproject.  I stumbled across his Cocovid player a few weeks back and
> wasimmensely impressed it.  The idea of playing/streaming videos,
> YouTubeclips, movies, etc., on the Coco seemed very cool to me.  John's
> ability tore-encode videos to use 256 colors was an added bonus (via
> artifacts, butthey are all there).  Frankly, I'm surprised by the lack of
> interest in itas I didn't really see any discussions about it in this
> mailing list.In any case, there are many components to the Cocovid project,
> includingthe requirement of pre-processing video files (under Linux for
> now) priorto playing on the Coco.  John did provide some basic
> documentation, but itcould use some improvements (which I'm working on
> now).  In fact, I'm alsoworking on porting over the pre-processing
> automation to work under Windowsas well.The actual Cocovid player is all
> assembly and accesses the Coco hardware ata very low level.  John developed
> project for use with an IDE based harddrive controller, so it's not
> compatible with the newer storage devices.There's also the ability to use a
> hard drive image with MESS (well, MAMEnow), but you lose the artifact
> colors so playing these videos on actualCoco hardware is the best option.
> This is the reason I am looking foreither IDE controller.For now, it's
> great as it is and I've really enjoyed working with it!Watching the Minions
> movie, the original Matrix or even many of Stevie'sCoco game demos from
> Youtube is a very surreal experience knowing that it'sall done on a 512k
> Coco 3.I'm hoping that others will find an interest in John's Cocovid
> player aswell.  I plan on sharing all the updated documentation soon (after
> Johnreviews it) so it will be much easier for folks to get it up and
> runningquickly.  Perhaps others (with way more talent than I have) might
> find away to get it to work with the newer storage solutions and open
> thisproject up to an even wider audience.Thanks for allowing me to ramble a
> bit...-RonOn Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:56 PM, RETRO Innovations <
> go4retro at go4retro.com>wrote:> On 5/23/2016 12:41 PM, Ron Klein wrote:>>>
> Hi everyone,>>>> I was unable to locate any documentation for the IDE
> controller on the>> Glenside's Club Coco page.  That being said, I don't
> know if there was any>> "official" documentation released for it.  If
> anyone has anything they can>> share, it would be greatly appreciated.>>>>
> Thank you!>>>> -Ron>>>>> What are you looking for?  Someone (I will have to
> check notes) shared the> schematics with me, and that tells one a lot about
> the design.>>> Jim>>> --> RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic
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