[Coco] DriveWire bootstrapped off MP3 player!!! No floppy or controller required!

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Tue Sep 28 15:29:03 EDT 2004


AFAIK, DLOAD(M) was removed. No-one used it and it was buggy.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alsplace at pobox.com>


> Wasn't there a DLOADM too? I'm pretty sure I used to that to get my 
> first (binary) XFER program back in 1982 on my grey case CoCo 1 in 
> Houston.
> 
> Is the DLOAD code completely gone in the CoCo 3?  Since they 
> (Microware) could only "patch" the Microsoft BASIC code, isn't DLOAD 
> still there in the Extended Color Basic ROM area?  Meaning someone 
> could do a poke to go back into CoCo 1/2 ROM mode then use DLOAD(M) on 
> a CoCo 3?




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