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

[Jim Cox]

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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