[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.
>
> Regards,
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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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