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

[Chad H]

Hope the cart was insertrd BEFORE you powered on the CoCo.  Otherwise, not only will the cart rom not load for commands, but you risk damaging the CPU

Blake Patterson <blakespot at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hey there,
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>I have a CoCo 3 with Extended Color BASIC 2.0. 
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>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.
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>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.
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>http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/diskbasic.html
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>Do I need to upgrade the ROM in the CoCo 3 to Disk BASIC for things to work?
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>Thanks.
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