[Coco] Booting NitrOS-9 on a CoCo 3

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 16:19:56 EDT 2009


On 3/24/09, N8WQ wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> Right now I have DECB 2.1 ROM in my floppy controller. Do I have to have
> a patched DECB (double sided, 40 track) ROM in order to boot this disk
> image?
>
> nos96309l2v030209coco3_40d_1.dsk
>
> I created this boot disk on my PC using DSKINI but the disk image will
> not boot on my CoCo 3 tower. In my tower I have two 5.25" 360K floppy
> drives. Thanks in advance.
>

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You don't need a special ROM to boot NitrOS-9.  That particular image
does require a 6309 CPU. Does your CoCo 3 tower have a 6309?

Darren



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