[Coco] Coco Flash

Tue Apr 25 08:59:27 EDT 2017

I’d love to get me one, but to make sure it will work with my current setup, How does one transfer ROMS into the CoCo Flash?

Thanks!

> On Apr 24, 2017, at 12:44 PM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree.   I have both. They both serve a purpose and share a spot in my MPI along with a physical floppy controller and speech/sound cart
> 
> ,
>  Original Message
> From: Frank Pittel
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 1:41 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Flash
> 
> 
> 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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