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PicoIDE Has Arrived! - This Week In Retro 253

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This Week In Retro had PicoGUS and PicoIDE creator Ian Scott as a guest host this week. He covers the PicoIDE development and status for those that are interested in the project.

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🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE hard drives by welcoming creator Ian Scott (polpo) to the show! Ian personally guides us through the underpinnings of PicoIDE, available for...
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I really want to back the PicoIDE, but I literally have nothing to put it in. My PCs are either all too old for IDE or have onboard SCSI, and my one Mac with IDE is currently broken. I wonder if it'd work through an XT-IDE...(probably not).
 
JoyfulTechnology said:
I really want to back the PicoIDE, but I literally have nothing to put it in. My PCs are either all too old for IDE or have onboard SCSI, and my one Mac with IDE is currently broken. I wonder if it'd work through an XT-IDE...(probably not).
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It would be kinda silly, but if the emulation is good enough then you could attach it to a standard USB-IDE adapter/bridge.

Very roundabout way to get a USB optical drive though, aside from being able to use disc images rather than real media.
 
I ordered one. This is a great project and I like the finished product feel of the Deluxe. The price is definitely high - if it is all open source I wonder if there will be clones at a lower cost?

I actually have a number of machines with IDE where it would be convenient to have flash-based CR-ROM. Mac, Sun, PC. I foresee the PicoIDE coming in handy.
 
adolescent said:
This Week In Retro had PicoGUS and PicoIDE creator Ian Scott as a guest host this week. He covers the PicoIDE development and status for those that are interested in the project.

twir.podbean.com

PicoIDE Has Arrived! - This Week In Retro 253 | This Week in Retro

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE hard drives by welcoming creator Ian Scott (polpo) to the show! Ian personally guides us through the underpinnings of PicoIDE, available for...
twir.podbean.com twir.podbean.com
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Would be nice if the urls were actually links :cautious:
 
Will be interesting to see if companies in China start making them for half off like everything else.
 
Unknown_K said:
Will be interesting to see if companies in China start making them for half off like everything else.
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They ate up the floppy emulation market but they've kept somewhat far away from the SCSI emulation market. There's more systems out there with IDE than SCSI but I don't think even China sees a market to flood.
 
There are still a ton of IDE drives around and working, SCSI not so much. Some of the SCSI machines are also high end so people are willing to spend more on those.
 
Istarian said:
It would be kinda silly, but if the emulation is good enough then you could attach it to a standard USB-IDE adapter/bridge.

Very roundabout way to get a USB optical drive though, aside from being able to use disc images rather than real media.
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Check out USBODE if you just want USB optical drive emulation. I built one and it works well (at least on modern systems that support booting from USB CD, etc.).

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GitHub - danifunker/usbode-circle

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Unknown_K said:
There are still a ton of IDE drives around and working, SCSI not so much. Some of the SCSI machines are also high end so people are willing to spend more on those.
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And you can just use a SATA, SD or CF adapter with IDE, but that doesn't manage a bunch of CD-ROM images for you. Burning images and swapping 10 different discs to install an operating system is a pain. SCSI emulators handle this part for SCSI machines, without the nice OLED interface though.
 
thisisamigaspeaking said:
And you can just use a SATA, SD or CF adapter with IDE, but that doesn't manage a bunch of CD-ROM images for you. Burning images and swapping 10 different discs to install an operating system is a pain. SCSI emulators handle this part for SCSI machines, without the nice OLED interface though.
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What operating system install could possibly require 10 CDs?
 
At least two of those are documentation and you probably don't need the languages disc for English...
 
Istarian said:
At least two of those are documentation and you probably don't need the languages disc for English...
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It doesn't include the compiler and dev kits. That's more disks.

I or you don't need the languages disk? I always install Swedish and Dutch if I have time and the inclination. Documentation too. The whole point of not having to mess around with real disk. Why not install everything?
 
thisisamigaspeaking said:
It doesn't include the compiler and dev kits. That's more disks.

I or you don't need the languages disk? I always install Swedish and Dutch if I have time and the inclination. Documentation too. The whole point of not having to mess around with real disk. Why not install everything?
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You do whatever works for you.

The point is that those are not necessary for a complete, functional install.

If you don't like retro, just forget about and live in the future where optical discs are virtually non-existent. Or just emulate everything including the computer itself.
 
Istarian said:
You do whatever works for you.

The point is that those are not necessary for a complete, functional install.

If you don't like retro, just forget about and live in the future where optical discs are virtually non-existent. Or just emulate everything including the computer itself.
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Ok from now on I'm only using punch cards, maybe tape in a pinch.
 
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