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I use a compact flash on my Sam Coupe.
I am just waiting for the SD card interface for my MSX to arrive and am watching eagerly at the SD card interface for the Enterprise that is currently in development.
 
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The msx card looks interesting. What card are you using on your coupe ?
 
On the Coupe I have an ATOM interface with an IDE to Compact Flash interface but I have also just got an ATOM Lite+ which is just Compact Flash.
 
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I've got the DivIDE on the ZX Spectrum. I'm trying to flash card all my old computers. But have to take it slowly due to money! The Amstrad CPC464 seems to be the most difficult so far as I need the DDI interface for the hxc to work.
 
I'm using the following on my machines:
Amstrad 6128/6128+ - HxC
BBC Micro/BBC Master - Turbo MMC and HxC
Tatung Einstein - HxC
Acorn Electron - HxC via disk interface
Atari ST - HxC
ZX81 - ZXPand
Atari 800XE - Side2 cartridge that takes CF cards
Spectrum +2 - DivIDE
Gameboy Advance - Movie Player - but it's only good for emulators it seems
Dreamcast - Dreamshell
WonderMega/Megadrive - Everdrive
Master System - Everdrive
Super Nintendo - Everdrive
PC Engine - Everdrive
Gamegear - Everdrive
NES - Everdrive

The only one I'd like one for is the NeoGeo Pocket..
 
Bump any new flashcarts out for the older machines, dragon, trs80 etc....
 
Obviously since the cheap floppy drive emulators appeared it opened up using an sdcard on a lot more systems, especially home computers. Removed the need to find floppy disks. Got me using real systems a lot more that's for sure.

I've only got flashcard systems on the more mainstream systems.

SNES - Everdrive
N64 - Everdrive (used to have a Z64 Mr Backup and a CD64 Pro)
Megadrive - Everdrive
Gameboy - flashcart system that i can't remember the make or name of. Bought it years ago from Liksang. It's transparent green with an external unit to read and write to the flashcart and had a second slot to copy original carts.
GBA - one of the first parallel port flashcarts with a 64mbit cart. Tempted to get an everdrive.
DS-XL - Acekard card. Still works fine.

All other systems i have are either modchipped or softmodded. PSX, PS2, Xbox, PSP etc.

I do have an original US 1.5 PSP with the hardware modchip installed. That's quite cool as although you don't need it now with softmodding it had its own second firmware so you can run 2 different firmwares.

I'm interested in the Playstation one sdcard development. And maybe the Dreamcast at some point. Plus one was in dev for the Saturn after the copy protection was finally cracked after 20 years, but I've not kept up on that.



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Obviously since the cheap floppy drive emulators appeared it opened up using an sdcard on a lot more systems, especially home computers. Removed the need to find floppy disks. Got me using real systems a lot more that's for sure.

I've only got flashcard systems on the more mainstream systems.

SNES - Everdrive
N64 - Everdrive (used to have a Z64 Mr Backup and a CD64 Pro)
Megadrive - Everdrive
Gameboy - flashcart system that i can't remember the make or name of. Bought it years ago from Liksang. It's transparent green with an external unit to read and write to the flashcart and had a second slot to copy original carts.
GBA - one of the first parallel port flashcarts with a 64mbit cart. Tempted to get an everdrive.
DS-XL - Acekard card. Still works fine.

All other systems i have are either modchipped or softmodded. PSX, PS2, Xbox, PSP etc.

I do have an original US 1.5 PSP with the hardware modchip installed. That's quite cool as although you don't need it now with softmodding it had its own second firmware so you can run 2 different firmwares.

I'm interested in the Playstation one sdcard development. And maybe the Dreamcast at some point. Plus one was in dev for the Saturn after the copy protection was finally cracked after 20 years, but I've not kept up on that.



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Hardware psp mod? Waaaaah? Got any more info? Never heard of that as I thought it was all software downgrade and cfw based exploits on the psp.
 
It was called the 'Undiluted Platinum' and it's a complete replacement firmware you install inside the psp as an extra board with a ribbon cable inside the battery compartment for updates.

Here's a bit about it

https://www.engadget.com/2006/05/26/is-this-new-undiluted-platinum-the-first-psp-modchip/

Should be more old articles about.

I bought my USA 1.5 PSP with the Mod board already installed at the time. You held a collar button down to boot from the standard firmware, or it booted into the custom firmware. You could also hold both collar buttons down to get an early boot menu.

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Harrison said:
It was called the 'Undiluted Platinum' and it's a complete replacement firmware you install inside the psp as an extra board with a ribbon cable inside the battery compartment for updates.

Here's a bit about it

https://www.engadget.com/2006/05/26/is-this-new-undiluted-platinum-the-first-psp-modchip/

Should be more old articles about.

I bought my USA 1.5 PSP with the Mod board already installed at the time. You held a collar button down to boot from the standard firmware, or it booted into the custom firmware. You could also hold both collar buttons down to get an early boot menu.

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Oh wow, I actually do remember that coming out. People were using them to fix bricks. Ze memories!

Thanks
 
Hi Owen

Indeed, I have Stock of FreHD Hard Disk Emulators for the TRS80 Model 1,3,4
And hope to run some DragonMMC boards soon for the Dragon32/64 and Coco

:)
 
In resurrecting this thread I just thought of a fairly obscure system I use a CF card in.

My car is a Peugeot 407 SW GT with an RT4 infotainment system. It has a built in 10GB HDD that stores the sat nav maps and some of the OS (the rest is on rom). The HDD has had a few random funny moments where it just rebooted itself, but more recently it decided to shut down completely and not reboot for quite some time, and you could hear the hdd trying to access. So I replaced the HDD with a CF card and reinstalled the software and maps. Has so far worked fine.

It's a fix quite a few have done on this system, and I imagine quite a few cars built in the 2000s will start to suffer from this issue because hdds don't last forever in daily use. Mine used a special vehicle grade hdd originally designed for marine satnavs, so not easy to find and expensive.

Some interesting issues when this happened. When the system shut down I didn't just lose the sat nav and audio as it was an integrated system. You could still use the aircon, but couldn't see the temps or settings. And the car's country setting is stored too, so without it the car resets to kilometres which is interesting on uk roads. The cruise control still works but is also in kph. The trip computer doesn't as it's linked into the system, but when it came back on it had always stored the data, so was obviously just the display side. I've noticed on more recent cars many manufacturers have separated the aircon controls from the central display, keeping them seperate from the entertainment. Probably a good idea to seperate each display part.

It made me think about these car shows where they restore vintage cars. Imagine in 20 years time, let alone 50, it's not going to be easy because I can imagine a lot of recent car electronics and infotainment systems will have failed and won't be easy, if at all possible to replace.
 
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