[Coco] Newbie questions

[Bill Pierce]

Sean, hdbdos does NOT revert back to the dw drive on VCC's floppy access. Have no clue what's going on but I use 2 instances of VCC running side by side with XRoar, simultainiously... daily, and I have seen no such problem... though there are a few bugs in VCC 1.4.3 that were never worked out. It could behave differently on different systems. It's programmed in old (Win98) MS Visual C++ 6.0 w/DirectX9 and was abandoned by it's author soon after. The Becker Port was added later by a third party.
I also run 1-2 real Cocos as well... all hooked to a single instance of drivewire.

BTW... DRIVEOFF & DRIVE OFF will produce the same results as will DRIVE 5 & DRIVE5.

I guess it's getting about time I finish my "Installing and Using VCC 1.4.3b with ,HDBDOS, NitrOS-9, andDriveWire" tutorial page...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Margules <s_man501 at yahoo.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 6:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Newbie questions


Right now all I'm trying to do is copy a disk from the FD-502 0 slot (not 
drivewire) partition 4 of the VHD (Its a premade Hard drive image I picked up 
somewhere or another: Nitros9.VHD) I only had drivewire on because HDBDOS seemed 
to require it. I was following the instructions for installing the Nitros9 boot 
disk found on page 16 of the HDB-DOS user manual (though I'm just trying to 
backup a game, not a boot disk). Seems I had two problems with this.

1: HDBDOS automatically reverts to the drivewire drives when you try to BACKUP, 
even when you use the DRIVE OFF command to turn off slots 1-3 of the VHD. I had 
the disk in the floppy drive, not drivewire, and it was looking in drivewire, 
hence the "DoOP_READEX: No disk in drive 0" error on the DW status screen.

2. When I switched to RGB-DOS I also unwittingly switched my syntax from "DRIVE 
OFF" to "DRIVEOFF" (hence the SN error there).

I fixed these two mistakes and now Donkey Kong is successfully installed in the 
4 slot of the VHD

Thanks for your continued help guys.