[Coco] Good news: my CoCo 3 is back to life!

[Christopher Hawks]

Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> My friend Daniel brought my CoCo 3 back to life, he reisntalled the 512 Kb
> expansion board and ta-da!!!!! It works!!!!
> 
> http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t191/garrettimus/coco.jpg
> 
> :-D
> 
> Unfortunately, he couldn´t get the disk drive to work. We do not know if 
> the
> HDB-DOS EPROM could be the problem, since DriveWire is not connected yet,
> only the disk drive itself. Is there any commands to load actual floppies
> when DriveWire is disconnected? He typed a command to load a game, but
> nothing happened. We haven´t been using the Multi-Pak either, just the disk
> drive interface/disk drive unit. Is the Multi-Pak needed because of the 12
> volt current?
> 
> We are a little lost here, totally newbies in terms of CoCo.

	YAY!!!

	I'm a little rusty (on HDB-DOS), but, if I remember correctly it defaults to 
the alternate floppys (Drivewire or hard drive) at power up.

	Try:
DRIVE OFF	(use real floppys, DRIVE ON will use Drivewire, manual p30)
DIR 0
	The drive light should come on and you'll hear the head seeking.
Insert a disk. Type:
DIR 0
RUN "NAMEofPROGRAM"	(with the quotes)

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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