[Coco] New version of SDC-DOS available

[Philip Zeigler]

So I just updated my CoCoSDC to the latest.  I primarily use NitrOS9 so I have a startup.cfg that has 0=sdcboot.dsk 1=harddisk.dsk.

Here are some issues I’m experiencing.  Because I have SDCX.DSK in the root of my SD card, at boot my startup.cfg for Drive 1 is overwritten with ————.
This mean that typing DOS will start the NitrOS9 boot process but the boot will fail since it can’t find my hard drive. I have to manually DRIVE1,”HARDDISK.DSK” to be able to complete the boot.

Secondly, the EXP command doesn’t do anything for me except return a ?NE ERROR.

Philip


> On Dec 2, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> An updated SDC-DOS version 1.3 for the CoCo-SDC is now available.
> 
> Download link for latest SDCSETUP disk image:
>   <https://goo.gl/snV5Mk>
> 
> 
> New features in this version:
> 
> Support for running an "AUTOEXEC.BAS" program at system startup.  You can
> hold down the SHIFT key to suppress this.
> 
> 
> A new EXP command which can be used to quickly mount and run a program like
> the SDC Explorer.  Think of EXP as shorthand for Explorer or Express.  The
> EXP command is roughly equivalent to the following:
> 
>  DRIVE 1,"/SDCEXP.DSK" : RUN "AUTOEXEC.BAS:1"
> 
> 
> The WRITE MEM command will now write to the FE00-FEFF locations in the
> flash banks when running on a CoCo 3. Likewise, the COPY MEM command now
> reads from flash for these locations on a CoCo 3.
> 
> 
> You can change the machine type for DriveWire communications to something
> other than the one detected by SDC-DOS at startup by entering:
>  DEF DW=n
> 
> Specify 1, 2 or 3 for n according to the CoCo model whose speed capability
> you want to use:
> 
>  1 =  38,400 bps
>  2 =  57,600 bps  -  requires op-amp replacement on CoCo 1
>  3 = 115,200 bps  -  allowed only on a CoCo 3
> 
> 
> 
> - Darren
> 
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