[Coco] A caveat for Drivewire users
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Tue Jul 2 11:25:31 EDT 2013
If you are like me, you have not burned a Drivewire HDBDOS ROM but are just
loading the ROM image from tape or disk. That will work just fine for many uses
and programs but be warned. Any program that makes use of the all RAM mode and
switches back to the ROMs for disk I/O will fail and probably crash your Coco!!
I know of two programs that fall into this category, Lyra and my EDTASM super
patch EDT6309. There certainly must be more programs that switch between RAM/ROM
and all RAM modes.
So before you blame Drivewire for your problems, regardless of Coco model, burn
a disk ROM.
Robert
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