[Coco] Resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[Darren A]

Assuming the Disk Basic ROM in the controller is version 1.1 (which is
a fairly safe assumption for a 26-3029 controller) you can boot an
OS-9 or NitrOS-9 floppy by entering the following sequence of
commands:

POKE 265,126
POKE 266,216
POKE 267,161
EXEC 49392
EXEC 57090

Darren

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On 8/25/08, Ryan Pritchard <coconut at pritchard.ca> wrote:
> So it looks like I have had 3 or 4 responses explaining I need to
> acquire an Extended Color Basic ROM for my CoCo, in order for me to be
> able to use the FDC.
>
> Don't suppose any one has a spare one I could purchase?  Else I
> suspect I should be looking into eBay or Cloud-9 for a CoCo 2 or 3,
> which in some ways may be my better bet anyway for running NitrOS-9.
> But there is still that part of me that wants to take this machine
> from 16K to 64K with Extended Color Basic.
>
> On 25-Aug-08, at 11:27 AM, Chuck Youse wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:19 -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
>>> Will the disk system run without Extended Color BASIC? I seem to
>>> recall that maybe it won't, but I've never owned a non-extended
>>> CoCo. I could be wrong...
>>
>> You're right, Disk BASIC requires the Extended BASIC ROM.
>>
>> C.
>>