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

[Mark Marlette]

Rick,

I keep all of the distributions that I setup the same. All offsets are equal, this allows a users to take his CF and plug it into another machine without re-FLASHing. Done this MANY times at the fest.

SuperIDE has 4-16k internal FLASH banks. We typically place DW in bank 0. A 256MB CF, bank2(256), if 128MB CF, bank1(128). That way through a poke or hardware switch change on the SuperIDE you have what you need in seconds.

Easy to remember.

Regards,

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Taylor" <coder32768 at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 4:05:14 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

If you wanted to set things up so that you have a RSDOS partition but also
an OS/9 / Nitros9 partition, what's the general plan of attack for that?
That's hopefully the direction I am going and what I am wanting to build.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:


> Jim,

>

> I don't want to spoil the fun, because going through the exercise is a neat

> experience, as you noted.  But as Frank stated, you will need a floppy drive

> to at least get HDB-DOS setup and burned into the flash of the SuperIDE.

>

> Keep us posted on your progress.

>

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> On Apr 5, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Jim Cox wrote:

>

>  Hi Frank,

>>

>> Yeah, I figured I would need a disk drive to set up the SuperIDE with

>> HBD-DOS, and NitrOS-9.  After that is done, I should only need to use a

>> disk

>> drive locally only if I am not using Drive Wire, or at least that is my

>> hope.

>>

>> I believe some Basic programs may require a local disk drive, but those

>> are

>> mostly games from what I have picked up from the list.

>>

>> Cheers,

>>

>> Jim Cox

>> http://miba51.blogspot.com/

>> http://geekswhocare.blogspot.com/

>> http://8-bit-retro-computing.blogspot.com/

>>

>>

>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>

>> wrote:

>>

>>

>>> You will need at least one floppy drive to set things up. The setup

>>> program

>>> for hdb dos will help you the offset. I would also suggest that you

>>> install

>>> the hdb-dos rom image in one of the flash banks on your Superide. This

>>> way

>>> you can start your coco and access the superide without a floppy.

>>>

>>> Frank

>>>

>>>

>>> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:51:31AM -0700, Jim Cox wrote:

>>>

>>>> 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/

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