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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.

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CoCo floppy disk replacement devices and software have one major shortcoming – the inability to use software in which the author wrote his or her own floppy disk access routines.
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All versions Drivewire and the SuperIDE; CoCoNet and the Micro SD Pak, Bluetooth Pak and RS-232 Pak all suffer from this problem.
 
Darren set out to alleviate the problem by designing a Color Computer Floppy Disk Emulator, based on an Atmega micro-controller. The CoCo SDC also provides 8 banks of flash RAM so users can program their favorite ROM or alternative OS as well. SDC-DOS and DECB reside in banks 0 and 1, respectfully, when shipped. The SDC was designed to fit into a FD-501 or 502 case, as shown below.
 
Darren has a [http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/ blog] where some basic info is currently stored. A real user manual is currently in the works.
 
 
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The device gives direct access to floppy disk images stored on and SDHC card, as well as images on a Drivewire server, while allowing use of real floppy hardware - so long as you have an MPI.
Keep an eye on the Tandy CoCo Blog for more info and [http://tandycoco.com/blog/archives/401 review updates].

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