[Coco] Your stock CoCo is DriveWire-ready out-of-the-box (was: DriveWire for dummies?)

[Christian Lesage]

Well, perhaps less than 7 POKEs, plus 1 EXEC. Let me see that.


Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> Christian,
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> Yes I would.  I take that it would be 7 POKEs and an EXEC?
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> BTW, Darren Atkinson sent me an email with the following:
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> Hi Boisy, 
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> I agree that having to enter a program by hand to bootstrap HDB-DOS would be too painful.  Nevertheless, it is possible to restore the DLOAD command to full functionality on the CoCo 3.  Here is a BASIC program that I use to do this.  Of course, pressing the RESET button destroys DLOAD again.
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> 10 CLEAR 50,&H7EFF:A = &H7F00
> 20 READ B$:IF B$="XX" THEN 50
> 30 B=VAL("&H"+B$):POKE A,B
> 40 A=A+1:GOTO 20
> 50 POKE 53040,127:POKE 53041,3
> 100 DATA BD,A4,29,9D,A5,80,4D,34
> 110 DATA 02,26,02,9D,9F,BD,A5,78
> 120 DATA 9D,A5,27,18,BD,B2,6D,81
> 130 DATA 2C,27,11,BD,B7,0B,86,B0
> 140 DATA 5D,27,07,86,2C,5A,10,26
> 150 DATA 35,20,97,E6,BD,8C,D0,34
> 160 DATA 02,86,FD,97,6F,35,02,6D
> 170 DATA E0,27,0F,BD,A5,C7,5D,27
> 180 DATA 06,BD,AD,19,7E,AC,7C,7E
> 190 DATA A6,16,7E,8C,85,XX
> 200 PRINT "DLOAD RESTORED"
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