[Coco] Solid state disk drive

[Darren A]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:16 PM, James Ross wrote:

> Stephen Batson wrote:
> > Assuming your aren't talking about the CoCoSDC. Why even bother
> > when the CoCoSDC is well supported and can hold much more
> > with a big SD card.
>
> So you would not have to run the SDC DOS that boots up w/ the CoCoSDC. By
> using a 720k emulator (if compatible w/ the CoCo controller), you could
> boot standard DECB and use it. While there may not actually be a *good*
> reason to do this other than for the FUN of it --- nonetheless, there is
> the reason. :)
>


You can boot standard DECB and use it with the CoCo SDC as well.  The best
reason to do so is to be able to run some programs that are incompatible
with SDC-DOS (like Warrior King). That's why every CoCo SDC is shipped with
DECB 1.1 programmed into bank 1 of the Flash.

Of course there is a little extra effort involved since you generally need
the SDC-DOS commands to mount a disk image or multi-disk set, but once that
is done it's quite easy to re-start using standard DECB. Just enter RUN @1.


- Darren