[Coco] CoCo FDD controller with ADOS 1.01

[Oswaldo Aquique]

Wow! Thanks for the information!

Right now, I'm running it in a Coco 1, so I think I'm good... In a week or so, I should receive a Coco 3/512k, so I'll definitely need to consider upgrading that EPROM to ADOS-3 or Extended ADOS-3.

All this is new to me (I haven't touched a CoCo for 30+ years until I got this one back in December, and my experience was only with cassettes, so I'm learning about the CoCo disk storage solutions).

Thanks again for all the details!

Cheers,
Oswaldo

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:14 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo FDD controller with ADOS 1.01

Oswaldo, are you using the controller in a CoCo 3?  If so, if you want ADOS, you should download ADOS-3, the version written specifically for the CoCo 3 that takes advantage of the CoCo 3's capabilities.  You configure it using the provided utilities and have it burned into an EPROM.  (There are people on the list that will burn EPROMs for you.)

The original ADOS will work in a CoCo 3, but not all that well.

There is also Extended ADOS-3, which needs to be burned into a 16K (double the usual capacity) EPROM along with ADOS-3.  That will give you a built-in Ramdisk, support for real-time clocks, advanced program-editing capabilities, and much more.

Art

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Oswaldo Aquique <oaquique at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Got a CoCo floppy disk controller (26-3029) from eBay and it came with 
> ADOS 1.01 loaded in ROM.
>
> Pros/Cons? (I'm not familiarized with ADOS and the BASIC version included).
>
> Is there a way to get a copy of the original ROM for this adapter?
>
> Thanks,
> Oswaldo
>
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