[Coco] CoCo SDC and others

Mon Mar 6 00:56:55 EST 2017

Hi Ron, et. all,

As of this email date, my internet has been down for 4 days now.  By the time everyone reads this email, of course my internet and email service will obviously be back up.  I went downtown today to a local restaurant called Bojanges to see if they have internet access.  After I setup my laptop, I found I could get on the internet, but email access was still not possible.  I know not when I will be back online with email to continue the wonderful conversations with all you guys as well as the help I have been getting from all you folks.  

Rom, your SD Card setup is very interesting.  Because I have been having many problems trying to access the Orch. 90 rom in the Coco3fpga, I have been reluctant to install any other disk rom images such HDB-DOS or YA-DOS thus far.  I would like to duplicate your rom setup in my Coco3fpga so we will have identical setups and can exchange ideas.  Maybe a semi-standard for rom image placement in the Coco3fpga might develop in this regard.  :)  When you are ready to share your information and files, please let me know.  I’m eagerly waiting for your response.  Take care my friend.  

Kip Koon

computerdoc at sc.rr.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ron Klein
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 7:51 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo SDC and others

Hi Kip,

It seems to work very well.  I wanted a way to easily populate an SD card with DSK images for use with the CoCo3FPGA using YA-DOS and the partition scheme Brett uses.  I wrote a BASIC program that reads a text file of DSK images on the Drivewire host PC, mounts each one and copies them to DECB partitions (supporting up to 255 floppy slots each) on the SD card.  The nice thing is YA-DOS supports the use of the BACKUP command without wiping the BASIC program from memory.

If I can make some time to clean the SD card up a bit, I can make an image of it to share.  It basically takes the various ULTIMATE SD compilations that are out there and duplicates it for use with YA-DOS.

-Ron

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Kip Koon < <mailto:computerdoc at sc.rr.com> computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Ron,

> I will have to check out YA-DOS on the CoCo3FPGA.  You may be getting 

> a question or two soon.  :)

> 

> Kip Koon

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>  <http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Coco [ <mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ron 

> Klein

> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 1:48 PM

> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts < <mailto:coco at maltedmedia.com> coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo SDC and others

> 

> Hi Kip,

> 

> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Kip Koon < <mailto:computerdoc at sc.rr.com> computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> 

> 

> > YA-DOS is another very interesting CoCo addition.  YA-DOS sports the 

> > ability to interface to every one of the storage solutions I have 

> > mentioned.  Brett Gordon has done a fine job on YA-DOS!  I highly 

> > recommend it.  It is very configurable and quite versatile.  With 

> > the correct understanding of all the additional commands available 

> > in YA-DOS anything is possible.

> >

> 

> I would also like to show support for YA-DOS as I'm a very big fan of it.

> I use it on all my Coco platforms -- real Coco 2 and 3, CoCo3FPGA, 

> MAME, VCC, XRoar, etc..  It's my hope that others check it out as well.

> 

> 

> I understand work is being done to interface Disk Extended Color Basic 

> to

> > the SD Card.  I don't know the current status of that project.  Once 

> > that is completed though, we will then be able to have everything 

> > running on the CoCo3FPGA that the real Coco can do!

> >

> 

> You might be happy to know that Brett's YA-DOS already provides 

> support for using the SD card in DECB (actually, YA-DOS) on the 

> CoCo3FPGA.  As you mentioned, there are others working on SD card 

> support, but it's nice to have something that works for the time 

> being.  Untethered access to files in Basic makes using the CoCo3FPGA even more enjoyable.

> 

> -Ron

> 

> 

> 

> 

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Coco [ <mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Peter 

> > Cetinski

> > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 7:05 AM

> > To:  <mailto:coco at maltedmedia.com> coco at maltedmedia.com

> > Subject: [Coco] CoCo SDC and others

> >

> > What's the current status on the solid state storage options for the 

> > CoCo?  Are they available as a kit, parts list or assembled?

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > Pete

> >

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