[Coco] Re: Any reason to put a 6309 in a Coco2?

Brad Grier bradgrier at cox.net
Wed Jan 7 09:52:46 EST 2004


Torsten Dittel wrote:

> Offlist didn't work...
> 
> Hi Brad,
> might be too much Mocha stuff, so I'll send that offlist:
> 
> Is the applet size of Mocha growing with each binary/disk image you add
> or will a new disk image load only if selected?
> 
> Another thing:
> 
> I noticed that there's no drive selection taking place, e.g. DIR1 shows
> the same as DIR0. If I do a DSKINI2 then anything is deleted on "Drive
> 0". I don't remember what happens if only one drive is connected to a
> disk controller on a real CoCo. Does Disk BASIC somehow check this and
> will display a ?DN ERROR if I do a DIR1 or something like that on the
> non-existant Drive 1 or will it just display an ?IO ERROR?
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> 

Once again, I did receive your e-mail so I'm not sure what's up with my 
ISP's mail server. I responded offlist.

To sum up, disks are only loaded if selected. And yes, the disk 
emulation needs some work. Emulating multiple drives would be nice!

Brad





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