[Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy BOOTSTRAP!

Sun Sep 29 21:11:53 EDT 2013

Chad, if I get the drivers built, I'll let you know

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2013 8:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

That's exactly what I'm trying to conjur, only so far I'm without a magic
wand.  Suppose I could substitute a hammer and beat it into submission until
it jumps as fast as I want..but then again. 

Oh yea..  I'm on CoCo 2

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 7:49 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

Chad, are you trying to turn Turbo on or off?
Either way, just use the proper driver for it.... but wait... they are not
currenly being built.
What Coco model are you using? (1, 2, or 3)?
I could muck with my local copy of the repo and make it build the Turbo
drivers if needed. I've been wanting to do this anyway to get mine in Turbo.

BTW... does anyone know why there's no Turbo hdbdos for Coco 1?
The roms that are built are only for Coco 2 & 3. I know the 1 needs a slower
baud due to the serial com flaw.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2013 8:02 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

Nice...a lot of chains in that link on the CC3 :)  

Now if I can just trace down how the DriveWire/NitrOS-9 bootstrap is setting
up the serial communications parameters and change it to 115200/2/xor on the
output, I will be good.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 6:55 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

Good work Chad, I must have missed the post or I would've told you to do it
just that way.

My Coco 3 has an autoboot feature (part of the Eagle keyboard interface) and
executes DOS after 10 or 15 secs if you don't hit a key. I have track 34
setup with a "dos" routine that runs a basic program that loads hdbdos from
the disk then a menu comes up (RG's RGBDOS menu) and I have it set so after
15 secs of not hitting a key, it does a DOS255 and boots NitrOS9. So I just
turn the Coco 3 on and it'll be in Nitros9 in less than a minute, while I'm
booting my Coco 1 and VCC.

My Coco 1 has no such feature and I rarely use BASIC so I just made a boot
for it the same as you described. It has the floppy boot but defaults to /dd
after it starts which is really /x0. There's a copy of the OS9Boot on the
VHD as well for "reset" warm starts. It works well for me. I do have another
disk set up for hdbdos if I want to work in BASIC and it will boot Nitros9
from drive255. I have the same "dos" program on that disk that starts
hdbdos.

Bill Pierce
My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
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Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2013 7:36 pm
Subject: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

Ok, someone told me this couldn't be done.  Perhaps they didn't understand
what I was referring to..

*	I wanted to be able to turn on my CoCo WITHOUT a DriveWire ROM, type
DOS and it 'BOOTSTRAP' into NitrOS-9 on the DriveWire 4 server.

I've managed to create a real Floppy that does just that.  DriveWire ROM not
required!  Essientially it is a DriveWire 4 NitrOS-9 floppy that starts the
bootup sequence from the real disk but somewhere along the way it 'switches'
to the /DD image housed on the DriveWire 4 server and seamlessly continues.
:-)

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