[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 11, Issue 104

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:06, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:30, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> > > Doing this from cassette seems kind of clunky.  Much nicer would be to put the
> > > boot program in a Rompack, IMHO.
> > > 
> > > Art
> > 
> > A rompack would be OK. But then it would take up the cartridge port. I
> > may eventually want to put a rs-232 card there.
> 
> The two are of course not mutually exclusive, even without a Multipak.  If you
> use the Radio Shack RS232 card, there's a garbage ROM in there that could be
> replaced with your boot program.
> 
> Art

Good point. I am planning on using a hacked up DC Modem Pak, replacing
the ROM should make the hack even more of a learning experience (my
soldering looks like a strange alien artform more than anything else)
:-)

-- John.