[Coco] New Overhauled CoCoBoot / Nitros9 Lizard

[Aaron Wolfe]

awesome stuff!

I have been using cocoboot as the default ROM in my superIDE for some
months now, and I love it.  I still need to check out the lizard
though.

-Aaron


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK... after that last false start here we go again.  CoCoBoot has been
> re-engineered to be kinder, gentler to the FDC and IDE controllers.
> This new version of the "lizard", I mean *wizard*, now boots in a
> total different way.  No more automagic probing of hardware as this
> was (1) taking up precious boot-track space, (2) Made HDB-IDE
> partitions particularly difficult to setup, and (3) driving me insane.
>
> The CCB core has been updated to ver .51a, but the "noswiz" package
> has precompiled binaries for your consumption.
>
> To get:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cocoboot/files/noswiz_v2.zip/download
>
> Differences to last lizard:
>
> 1. There are now specific drive images depending on where you'll be
>   booting the wizard from the first time.
> 2. NOSWIZ asks you some more questions about your IDE controller (if
>   you have one)
>
> Willard:  I tested with my SuperIDE on both ff50 and ff70... it works.
>
> Christoper:  Works fine with Xroar... just as slow and as ungly as my
> real CoCo2 :)
>
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Brett M. Gordon
> beretta42 at gmail.com
>
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