[Coco] Adventures in resetting up...

[William Astle]

Finally, after a couple of years of having my CoCo system sitting in 
boxes in the corner for lack of anywhere to set it up, I've got it 
online with the new goodies I acquired from Cloud9 at the 'fest. So now, 
I've got a working system with the following:

Coco3 with 6309 processor
512K RAM
MPI
FD502 floppy controller and drive
SuperIDE with a 128MB flash card and an 85MB IDE drive attached
CM8 monitor
AT Keyboard interface
Drivewire interface

Now I wish I had all that stuff back in the day. :)

So I've managed to get all of it working together sanely. First I got 
HDB-DOS installed into the SuperIDE. Now that's cool. Then I figured I 
needed Nitros9 so I downloaded that and set it up so it was available 
via drivewire and got that going. After some poking around, I finally 
managed to get my brain to click and I got a functional Nitros9 boot 
with both the Drivewire and IDE interfaces active. Now that's cool.

Nitros9, Drivewire, HDB-DOS, the SuperIDE, and the AT keyboard interface 
are really cool items.

One thing I discovered as I was poking around is that you can easily get 
the SuperIDE and the floppy controller to both work without having to 
switch any switches on the MPI by putting POKE&HFF7F,255 in the 
AUTOEXEC.BAS file (assuming your floppy controller is in slot 4), at 
least on my MPI.

Now all I need is another 360K floppy drive to put into my PC. (The BIOS 
on my motherboard seems to think it supports 360K 5.25" drives. I wonder 
if it's telling the truth.) But that's a problem for another day.

-- 
William Astle
finger lost at l-w.ca for further information

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