[Coco] A little help with OS9

[Robert Gault]

Dave Philipsen wrote:
>
> On 4/23/2015 8:38 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Reads like you no longer have any disk drives. If that is true, then your best
>> approach would be to run Drivewire4 on your PC connected to your Coco through
>> the serial port. That will require you to have at a minimum a PAK with the
>> Drivewire HDBDOS ROM and make the serial cable.
>> Unless you are a hardware tinkerer, making the required cable, burning an
>> EPROM, making a ROM PAK or obtaining a disk controller is not trivial. Good
>> luck! :)
>>
>> Now you can also go the emulator route which really is very simple.
>>
>> Robert
>>
> Ok, so when you say "PAK" you're just talking about any kind of cartridge that
> will take an extension ROM right?  So, if I can burn HDBDOS to an EPROM and wire
> it so that it is selected at $C000 and then make a serial cable from the
> bit-banger port I should be good to go, right?
>
> Dave
>
>

Yes, that is what you need to do unless you want to acquire a disk system. So, 
the PAK can be any game or device where you can swap out the ROM for an EPROM 
with HDBDOS.

Robert