[Coco] Help with floppy disk setup - first time user

[Blake Patterson]

Hey there,

I have a CoCo 3 with Extended Color BASIC 2.0. 

I have just gotten a load of CoCo stuff from a user I traded with. I've got a dual floppy disk setup with controller cart, and RS-232 pack, a DriveWire, a CoCo 3 mobo w/ 512K exp, and some other kind of controller.

I connected the floppy drive to the cart and plugged it in and tried some basic disk commands (DIR 0, DIR 1, etc.), but nothing happens. It's as if the commands aren't in the system's syntax.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/diskbasic.html

Do I need to upgrade the ROM in the CoCo 3 to Disk BASIC for things to work?

Thanks.




bp