[Coco] Compaq IA-1 CoCo 3 emulator photos

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Mon Apr 14 18:37:38 EDT 2008


You might be able to work with this one:
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux2/
http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/
I used it for a while on a 486/40 w/ 8 MB and a small HD.
They can use packages from Slackware, so you should be able to use the 
zd1211rw driver from there.
Weird. Their version 3 works with Slack 4, version 2 with Slack 7

Diego


>
> I tried Midori Linux on the IA-1 and was not that impressed, mainly 
> from the lack of meat and potatoes.  There was literally nothing to do 
> except fire up the MP3 player and edit a document...  no zd1211rw 
> wireless-G support for my Belkin USB network adaptor, etc.  Midori 
> seems to be a scaled down version of Debian from what I read on the 
> web.  It looks nice but without the wireless dongle support, it's a 
> sitting duck.  Actually, it doesn't even come close to how nice Fedora 
> 9 is.  Wow.  Look out Gates.  Really.  (no, really).  :)
>
> I fresh-installed Fedora 9 on my spare laptop yesterday (up from 
> Fedora 8) and was impressed to see it connect to my wireless router 
> within a minute from the desktop showing, automatically connecting to 
> the network.  I called up Firefox and went right into the chat room on 
> my site.  This is impressive stuff.  I did do a modprobe zd1211rw at 
> first from a prompt but I'm not sure if that was required.
>
> If I can get any version of Linux that fits in 16mb and has the 
> zd1211rw driver already ready to use, I'll give it a shot, but it'll 
> be an internal Flash drive install, leaving the option to insert the 
> CF card to boot up MS-DOS and the CoCo stuff.
>
>
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