[Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

[Jim Cox]

My plan is to set up my CoCo system so that it will boot into HBD-D0S and/or
NitrOS-9 from a SuperIDE.  I know I need to load the images of HBD-DOS /
NitrOS-9 onto a CF card connected to my SuperIDE.

Once the CoCo has booted up, I then want it to be able to connect my CoCo
system to a PC via DriveWire.  The host PC is a Dell GX100 with Windows
2000, and has the ability to recognize 360K 5 1/4 and 720K 3 1/3 drives.  I
plan to run MESS and VCC on this PC, and possibly other emulators and
development apps.

I don't want anyone to tell me how to do this, because that would take the
fun out of it.  What I could use though is some advice and insight about
what I need to consider when setting up the CoCo system as I described.

I know that RTFMs will be required, so no need to repeat that :-)

How helpful will an MPI be in this configuration?  Should I also connect
disk drives to the CoCo?  Any hints about driver issues?

Cheers,

Jim Cox
http://miba51.blogspot.com/
http://geekswhocare.blogspot.com/
http://8-bit-retro-computing.blogspot.com/