[Coco] Intro and need some help (Was: Re: (no subject))

[Kip Koon]

Bill,
Welcome to the Coco List!  There are quite a few software and hardware
experts on this list that are more than willing to help you.  Have fun
Cocoing again!  :)   
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Gunshannon
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 1:11 PM
To: The COCO Mailing List
Subject: [Coco] (no subject)


Greetings all,
  After a long hiatus I am getting back into the COCO, primarily
NitrOS9 (which wasn't even around when I last used my COCO's  I did OS9
Level1 and when it came out I also did Level2).

  My first setup is a COCO3 with 512 and a Cloud9 SuperIDE with 40 Meg disk,
two 40 Track Doublesided 5 1/4 floppies and a Deluxe RS232 Pak.  Oh yes, and
an MPI.

  I have got it most of it working using the instructions that came with the
SuperIDE.  But I have one problem. I have built my custom system using my
own bootlist and script.  Everything is fine, except for two modules.  For
some reason /i1 and /ih don't load.  No errors.
No complaints, they just aren't there after bootup.  Anything I should be
looking at?  They work when I boot from the SuperIDE floppy but not from my
hard disk.

And, just to get started, another couple of questions.

Is there a simple mod that would allow me to add a second RS232 PAK tot he
system?  I assume it would require just changing the address on the PAK and
making a modified driver module that knows about the new address.  Has
anyone done this yet?

I saw the messages about the SD module.  I have a couple of those uDrive
cards and a useless modem PAK.  Anybody looked at hacking the two of these
together for a uDrive module?

Is there any way to use more than 4 PAKs?

And one last one for now.  I have the Speech/Sound PAK and the Stereo Music
Synthesizer PAK.  Anybody ever do drivers for these?

Really looking forward to playing with this again as it was always a great
system.  Oh yeah, and while I haven't tried changing the console I do all of
my real work from a remote VT220.  Easier onthe eyes and a really nice
keyboard.  :-)

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>



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