[Coco] coco OS9 boot ROM

[Arthur Flexser]

But why unnecessarily sacrifice the ability to run all RSDOS software?  
It is quite an easy ROM patch to have the CoCo boot OS-9 unless, say, the
space bar is being held down, in which case it does the usual Basic
boot-up.  (This was one of the configurable options I put into Extended
ADOS-3, though it would be a bit silly to burn an EA3 ROM if one were
using OS-9 essentially exclusively.)

Art

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Bob Devries wrote:

> What I'd like to see is an OS-9 boot ROM that replaces the existing BASIC
> ROM. I *never* use disk basic, and find it a real pain to have to boot off a
> floppy to get into OS-9.
> 
> Something along the lines of the way the MM/1 works: Check the floppy, to
> see if there's a bootable disk, then check the hard disk (SCSI or IDE, tho
> the MM/1 doesn't do IDE), keep looping one of them boots.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
> 
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