[Coco] rom swap with eprom?

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 23:43:19 EST 2016


Hi Steve,

I am producing the SDCs.  Send me an email off-list to arrange for purchase.

- Ed


> On Jan 16, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Steve C. <towmater at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It worked! It's touchy, I had to flow solder onto the cartridge traces to
> get the Coco to read the cart, but it seems to be OK once it is running.
> CoCoSDC? Where can I buy this magical sounding device?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Barry Nelson <
> barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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