[Coco] HDB-DOS build fixes. Untested as of yet.

[Charlie Pelosi]

Gene, I have no doubt! But I only see the lines with the bad rom during DW i/o.


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From: Gene Heskett<mailto:gheskett at wdtv.com>
Sent: ‎12/‎30/‎2012 2:24 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com<mailto:coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] HDB-DOS build fixes. Untested as of yet.

On Sunday 30 December 2012 14:20:58 Daniel Campos did opine:

> Em 30/12/2012 14:51, Charlie Pelosi escreveu:
> > And older version of the rom 1.1D works fine, so the config is good.
> >
> >
> >
> > I do notice something hard to describe. When the coco 1 tries to do
> > I/O through DW the screen gets these very subtle verticle lines that
> > jump all over, almost like interference.....

Its quite likely that the electrolytic capacitors on your coco's board are
dried out and suffering from high ESR.  After nearly 30 years, its to be
expected.   That is today, 90% of the capacitor failures I have found over
the last 20 years.

> >
> > Charlie
>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> Do you know where I can get this older 1.1D ROM package ?
> Never saw the Color64 working with Drivewire and would like to test
> that.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
>
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