[Coco] CocoPi3 cannot load disk images

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:00:30 +1000
Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have made it work using RGBDOS and Robert's hard drive image.
> BEWDY...
> 
> Another related question:
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to stop the RPi from pausing and dimming
> the screen when the P key is pressed? What happens is that once the P
> is pressed, the screen dims and no more characters are input until P
> is pressed again. Very annoying when typing into an editor or NitrOS9 
> command line.
> 
> Does anyone know how to stop this action?
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> On 2017-11-28 5:11 AM, Ron Klein wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> > 
> > I can work with you offline, sir.
> > 
> > DECB will only recognize 160K floppy DSK images.  Is that what you
> > are using?  Some of the NitrOS9 images are hard drive based, so you
> > will need to use HDB-DOS (rather than DECB).  You can then mount
> > the hard drive image in MAME in the HARD DISK section or you can
> > mount them in Drivewire (which is already running on the CocoPi3).
> > 
> > I''ll send you a private email so we can exchange messages.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Bob Devries
> > <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I just finished installing the emulator on my Pi3, and, while the
> >> emulator runs, I cannot load most images. I say most because I
> >> appear to be able to load standard DECB images, but I can't load a
> >> NitrOS9 image at all.
> >>
> >> I am using the plain vanilla DECB (entry 1 in the Coco3 menu).
> >> I press TAB, and that brings up the menu where I can choose File
> >> Manager, and then select the option to insert a disk image. I
> >> choose an OS9 image such as nos96809l2v030300...... etc etc, but
> >> the chosen file does not show up in that option, and frequently my
> >> RPi3 freezes.
> >>

Bob:

    If you press 'scroll lock' again to go back to 'full emulation'
mode (and disable the UI), the 'P" key will give a 'P' keypress and not
pause the emulation. Also the rest of the UI keys will not work (such
as 'TAB' to get to the config menu).


> >> I did do the file system expansion (I have a 16GB SD Card).
> >>
> >> Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Regards, Bob Devries
> >> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> >>
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> 




Christopher R. Hawks
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