[Coco] Disk drive interface question...extended basic required to use it?

[Ivan Browning]

Glad to hear you got it working!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Walter Miraglia <walter.miraglia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you,
>
> i burned a combined rom, and set the 5 jumpers to 128K (rom) and tried the
> disk cart again and it worked this time...
> now i will try the drive, and cart together. :)
>
> cheers. :)
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Ivan Browning <theczar7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 ACTIVE™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Walter Miraglia <walter.miraglia at gmail.com>
> > Date: 08/31/2015  8:28 PM  (GMT-05:00)
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Disk drive interface question...extended basic
> required
> >         to use it?
> >
> > Perfect thank you for confirming.  Going to burn one now.    :0)
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 31, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Ivan Browning <theczar7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > You will need extended basic to use disk basic.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Walter Miraglia <
> > walter.miraglia at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I purchased a disk drive FD 500 and 26-3129 controller. I was able to
> > test
> > >> them at VCFMW and they both worked great (thanks again guys).  I
> brought
> > >> them home. Then I unpacked my recent eBay purchase and set it up. It
> > >> powered up and all keys work.  ( a COCO 2 ) with 16 k ram (expandable
> > to 64
> > >> with 2 64x4 ram chips)  version  1.3 basic in the standard 8 k rom
> (but
> > >> switchable to 16k because the rom socket on the motherboard is 28
> pin).
> > >>
> > >> I plugged in the controller and the boot message at the top of the
> > screen
> > >> did not indicate disk basic like it did when we tested it at the
> > show.    I
> > >> cleaned the contacts on the cartridge port and cleaned the contacts on
> > the
> > >> cartridge but no luck.
> > >>
> > >> I think I remember Neil saying I would need extended basic before the
> > disk
> > >> basic would work.  Can anyone confirm this?   I was going to burn a
> 16 k
> > >> 27128 this evening as soon as I find the file and then change the
> jumper
> > >> setting on the board to 128k.
> > >>
> > >> The testing was all done with COCO 3's which I am hoping to get soon,
> > and
> > >> we know this cart does not require 12 volts as it worked fine in the
> > COCO
> > >> 3.
> > >>
> > >> Unfortunately I don't have another cart to test with to verify its not
> > the
> > >> COCO 2 with basic 1.3.
> > >>
> > >> Help?   :0)
> > >>
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