[Coco] rom swap with eprom?

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Fri Jan 15 15:18:47 EST 2016


I believe DW3DOS is only for booting NitrOS9. When I did this, I put the latest DriveWire version of HDBDOS in one bank, and a standard RSDOS in the second bank. It depends on your hardware what might be most useful. I had functional floppy drives, and some software will not run from DriveWire, so I put a vanilla RSDOS in the other bank. If you don't have working floppy drives or a CoCoSDC then a regular RSDOS won't do you much good and maybe you want the instant boot to NitrOS9 in the other bank. If you have a floppy controller with RSDOS and an MPI and are installing HDBDOS in a separate cartridge, then perhaps have RSDOS as the floppy rom, and something like HDBDOS and ADOS in the DriveWire rom cartridge.

So many choices...

> Steve C. towmater at gmail.com 
> Fri Jan 15 11:27:43 EST 2016
> 
> I've built the Drivewire cartridge using the Commodore instruction page
> that Barry kindly referenced, and I'm ready to burn an eprom. I imagine
> that I should have DW3DOS and HDBDOS in different banks? Or is one
> universally better than the other, and something else should go in bank two?



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