[Coco] Compaq IA-1 CoCo 3 emulator photos

[Andrew]

Roger,

This system looks perfect - I am glad you got it up and running. Looks a 
lot better than my current emulator box.

I don't know if you will be able to get that USB thing working under DOS 
- usb doesn't seem to have much, if any, support there. You might find 
an easier time of getting a version of Linux running (I would try a 
scaled down version of stock Debian, personally) and then getting the 
USB working.

Anyhow, good luck with it and whatever else you plan on doing to it. 
Such "hacking" takes a lot of time and patience, I know...boy, do I know.

-- Andrew L. Ayers
    Glendale, Arizona

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 > Message: 11
 > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:39:51 -0500
 > From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
 > Subject: [Coco] Compaq IA-1 CoCo 3 emulator photos
 > To: cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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 > http://www.coco3.com/modules.php?name=Gallery&g2_itemId=1340
 >
 > Here it is, folks... booted from a 2gig CompactFlash card, it's
 > Vavasour's emulator loaded with folders full of virtual disks and ROMs.
 >
 > The next step, which I probably won't keep, would be to embed MS-DOS
 > and the emulators inside of the IA-1's internal 16mb Flash memory so
 > when you turn the unit on, even without a CF inserted, it goes
 > straight to the CoCo emulator.  The trick would be to launch it from
 > the autoexec.bat since it's all MS-DOS based.
 >
 > Right now a 16mb light version of Linux called 'Midori' is installed
 > to the internal Flash drive, which is going unused due to nothing
 > being in the distro and no wireless ability.  When a bootable CF is
 > inserted, it gets priority since I have the BIOS set that way.
 >
 > The Microsoft garbage installed on the unit is gone but I made an
 > dolly.exe backup to an .img file just for the heck of it.  If I lost
 > that file, no loss of sleep.
 >
 > The IA-1 has 4 USB ports and a sound out jack.  That's about it
 > besides the CF slot.  I'd like to get a USB to RS-232 serial adaptor
 > working if I can and maybe, just maybe, the DriveWire scheme could
 > work to connect the IA-1 to a PC to serve floppy disks and
 > such.  I'll save that for later.