[Coco] "Ultimate" CoCoSDC Image

Travis Poppe travispoppe at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 21:16:45 EST 2016


On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 06:48:45PM -0700, Travis Poppe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 06:22:21PM -0700, Travis Poppe wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:13:06PM -0500, Barry Nelson wrote:
> > > You need to mount the drive under SDC DOS using the drive command
> > > before typing "RUN @3" to switch to HDBDOS.
> > 
> > That's what I thought. Weirdly enough, the VHD image does not show up
> > with either the .vhd extension or the .dsk extension when I do a "DIR /"
> > under SDC-DOS. I've never attempted to mount a VHD with SDC before, so
> > I'm not sure if that's normal or not.
> 
> Sorry, never mind that. Windows had still snuck a .vhd extension at the
> end of the file. 
> 
> Unfortunately the system still hangs when I do a "DOS 255" after
> launching HDB-DOS with the VHD mounted.

Additionally, I can boot the VHD directly just fine from SDC-DOS and get
the NitrOS9 imagine, which is pretty dang cool by itself.

I'm wondering if there's some weird incompatibility with the HDB-DOS SDC
ROM on my system. "DOS 255" will just hang, but simply typing "DIR"
will show a garbled screen and a hard lock.

Best regards,
-- 
Travis Poppe
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