[Coco] Announcement: CoCoBoot Project's first Alpha release
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Tue Oct 11 22:44:33 EDT 2011
Brett Gordon wrote:
> I have decided that my "CoCoBoot" project is complete enough for it's
> first alpha release.
>
> CoCoBoot is an effort to modernize, and unify booting strategies for
> the Tandy Color Computer.
>
> 1. Provides scripting to the end user to allow maximum flexibility
> in creating new way to boot their CoCo. This scripting ability
> is provided by a token threaded FORTH compiler.
>
> 2. Allows one boot loader to impliment the various different ways a
> CoCo can boot: via the DOS, CLOADM, LOADM commands in BASIC, as
> well as BASIC's cartridge interrupt, and DECB's external ROM paths
> too.
>
> 3. Provides routines for accessing different disk-based hardware: FDC,
> IDE, DriveWire, ROM.
>
> see the release's "HELP" file more more info:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cocoboot/
>
In addition to Steven's comments about the ../filename issues, the .dsk image
has data starting in track 0 sector 1 but the directory is empty. As such, the
disk is neither OS-9 nor Disk Basic.
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