[Coco] Setting up a BBS

[Tim Fadden]

Rod,

Out of the manual:

NE: The computer Can't find the disk file you want. Check the disk's 
directory to see if the file is there. If you have two disk drive, you 
might not have included the appropriate drive number in the file name. 
If you are using COPY, KILL, or RENAME, you might have left off the 
extension.

Out of me: :-)
Did you do a list on line 190 to see what it was trying to write to?  Is 
it trying to write to another drive?
What does line 190 say?...  what is being passed to it? ...that is the key.

Great luck in your efforts! and willing to help if you want it. he he he



Rod Barnhart wrote:
> Another quick update: it finally occurred to me to put the CoCo drive
> in the PC and use DSKINI to transfer COBBS.DSK to a real CoCo floppy.
> So I did, and then I reconnected it to the CoCo3, ran coterm.bas to
> create coterm.bin. Then I ran loader.bas to modify coterm.bin for use
> with the bitbanger. Finally, I ran startup.bas to fire up CoBBS. It
> asked me for the date, day of week, and time, then died with an ?NE
> ERROR IN LINE 190, and the CoCo is frozen solid. Somehow I don't think
> that's what it was supposed to do ;)
>
> A couple of possibilities: CoBBS won't run on a 3 (anyone know if it
> will?), dskini borked the disk (This is a distinct possibility. I made
> several copies. They all die in the same spot.), or I've managed to
> get one of the versions of CoBBS mentioned on
> http://software.bbsdocumentary.com that simply doesn't work.
>
> I'm momentarily stalled again, but I'll run some tests under various
> emulators to see if I can track down my latest problem...
>
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