[Coco] Coco Flash

[Frank Pittel]

I hope no one takes as a slight or in a way other than I intended. To my
knowledge and understanding the coco flash and sdc aren't meant to be in
competition with each other. Rather they complement each other.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Thanks for that info Barry. The table formatting did not come through
> entirely, so I took the info and created a PDF from it. It can be
> downloaded here:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwHoDS_llfwSU0RjY1YyQWZjdTQ/view
>
>
> And the PDF be put anywhere that is convenient. Salvador
>
>       From: Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
>  To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>  Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 12:42 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Flash
>
> > Rietveld Rietveld rietveldh at hotmail.com  <mailto:
> coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%
> 20Coco%20Flash&In-Reply-To=%3CDM5PR14MB13066996F36BE374E3D80D85B61F0%
> 40DM5PR14MB1306.namprd14.prod.outlook.com%3E>
> > Mon Apr 24 00:12:54 EDT 2017
> >
> > I have both the SDC and now the Flash pak. The SDC is great. Iy emulates
> the disk drive and let's me access all my. Dsk files.
> > The flash pak let's me 'own' all of the program paks without really
> owning them.  That is I can download the. Bins and install them all onto
> one pak.    With the built in menu I can load any pak as easily as I could
> if I owned them individually.
> > With the SDC I load a disk image that contains a copy of the rom pak but
> the disk image is limited by size and can not obviously hold all 72 pak
> roms. So you end up having to insert different. Dsk's that contain the pak
> rom you want to run
> > The real advantage, at least for me, is to have all of the rom pak
> images available at one time
> The CoCo SDC and the CoCo Flash do different things.
>
> The CoCo SDC’s primary purpose is to emulate a disk drive. The SDC has
> flash rom functionality, but it is limited. It can only hold 8 roms at any
> one time, and all 8 slots are 16k. You can not load more than 8 roms into a
> CoCo SDC, no matter how small they are, and you can not load roms larger
> than 16k either. The flash rom banks in the CoCo SDC are intended mainly
> for loading alternate disk controller rom images, not games, although you
> can get some game roms to run from there.
>
> The CoCo Flash was designed and built with the intention that almost any
> rom cartridge can be loaded into it, even games that are larger than 16k
> that included special rom banking hardware and run in their original
> unpatched form. It’s disk support though is almost non-existent and is
> limited to being able to load and run a DriveWire rom image. The two
> products complement each other.
>
> I hope the formatting on this text table makes it onto the mailing list.
>
>                     CoCo Flash            CoCo SDC
> Is compatible with all disk software    No                Yes
> Is compatible with all rom software    Yes                No
> Max number of rom images supported    2046                8
> Runs 2k roms                Yes (takes up 4k)        Yes (takes up 1 of 8
> 16k slots)
> Runs 4k roms                Yes                Yes (takes up 1 of 8 16k
> slots)
> Runs 8k roms                Yes                Yes (takes up 1 of 8 16k
> slots)
> Runs 16k roms                Yes                Yes
> Runs 32k roms                Yes                No
> Runs 64k roms                Yes                No
> Runs 128k roms                Yes                No
> Runs 256k roms                Yes (None yet exist)        No
> Runs game roms                Yes                Yes (you may need to type
> EXEC &HC000 or EXEC &HE010)
> Runs DOS roms                Yes (but no disk hardware)    Yes (with full
> disk emulation)
> Emulates a floppy controller        No (but you can run DriveWire)    Yes
> Emulates a hard drive            No (but you can run DriveWire)    Yes
>
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