[Coco] A little help with OS9

[Tormod Volden]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
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> On 4/23/2015 8:38 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
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>> Reads like you no longer have any disk drives. If that is true, then your
>> best approach would be to run Drivewire4 on your PC connected to your Coco
>> through the serial port. That will require you to have at a minimum a PAK
>> with the Drivewire HDBDOS ROM and make the serial cable.
>> Unless you are a hardware tinkerer, making the required cable, burning an
>> EPROM, making a ROM PAK or obtaining a disk controller is not trivial. Good
>> luck! :)
>>
>> Now you can also go the emulator route which really is very simple.
>>
>> Robert
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> Ok, so when you say "PAK" you're just talking about any kind of cartridge
> that will take an extension ROM right?  So, if I can burn HDBDOS to an EPROM
> and wire it so that it is selected at $C000 and then make a serial cable
> from the bit-banger port I should be good to go, right?

You can also bootstrap NitrOS-9 via tape (or a computer acting as a
tape player, of course) loading the small DWDOS bootloader, without
any HDBDOS pak.

Tormod