[Coco] CoCo emulation on a Compaq Internet Appliance?

[Diego Barizo]

The CF card is just like any disk. Using the PCMCIA adapter, I connected 
it to a laptop running win98 (any PC with a card reader will work). From 
there, just FORMAT /S or from the windows format tool, use the option to 
transfer system files. This is enough to make the card bootable.
After that, just copied the emulator, and a bunch of DSK files to it.
I'm not 100% sure if I was using the CoCo 2 or 3 emulator, and I don't 
believe I used any OS-9 disk (JV's needs some tweaking to boot OS-9 if 
I'm not wrong).
Also, I think that there are some speed issues (It runs to fast)
DK's shouldn't have problems, and I don't see any reason for it not to work.
If you need any help with the CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files, let me 
know. I should still have some very good ones around.
Sorry about all my doubts, but I used those emulators in so many 
computers that I'm not really sure which computer was I using and when.

Diego

Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 01:47 PM 10/22/2007, you wrote:
>> I just remembered....
>> The port on the side is actually a PCMCIA. I had to use a CF to 
>> PCMCIA adapter...
>> Maybe other PCMCIA cards can be used? I seem to remember that it only 
>> has one slot that is needed for the CF card....
>>
>> Diego
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> Bummer.  That's an extra part needed.  I thought I'd been reading that 
> the slot is for CF cards, but I guess I'm wrong.  In that case, it 
> might be wise to also check for a PCMCIA-based memory card instead.  
> Ofcourse with my luck there's plenty available but maybe can't be 
> booted from.
>
> So tell me more about your CoCo emulation in the Compaq unit so I can 
> at least know that Keil's or JV's emulator will run at a decent speed 
> or faster, etc.  Will it run the JV CoCo 3 emulator?  Did you ever 
> boot into a NitrOS-9 .dsk image.
>
> Thanks for the info.
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