[Coco] ok i am learning but not fast enough

[Barry Nelson]

My first suggestion is not to worry about the Super IDE, the Super IDE is nice, but the CoCo SDC is nicer and less expensive. I think Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> still has some available. As far as a HDBDOS rom, a CoCo SDC has flash rom, so you can load the rom image in there. As far as an HDBDOS rom is concerned, cloud9 will burn an eprom for $15 plus shipping and handling but then you would also need a 28 pin rom adapter, so by the time you add everything up, you are probably better off paying $45.95 for a CoCo SDC if they are available, which I think they are. I already have a version of the VCCEmuDisk.vhd for the CoCo SDC. If you have a working floppy drive, you could load HDBDOS from a real floppy, that is an option, and I am working on a version of VCCEmuDisk.vhd for DriveWire. I should have that ready soon. I you want an image of a disk that you can write to a real floppy with HDBDOS 1.4 then this link should work:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZcEVac0dtWUxVU1E/view?usp=sharing
I am also emailing you off list with the HDBDOS 1.4 rom image and the cassette wav file.

> Richard Hawk rhawk1 at centurylink.net 
> Wed Feb 17 22:23:08 EST 2016
> 
> I pulled my real COCO3. I am wanting a hard drive but cloud 9 is sold out
> on the superide.  So I am stuck with using drivewire4 and vccemudisk.vhd
> 
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> 
> I been pouring over the internet and reading manuals and trying.  I came up
> with I have to boot in to hdb-dos 1.2 I need to purchace a new rom I think I
> saw there is hdb-dos 1.4 out there. So if anybody knows where I can purchase
> that i would appreciate it.  
> 
>  
> 
> So anyways I type (POKE &HD938,5 : POKE &HD939,&HA0 : POKE &HD93A,0) and I
> have the .vhd in drive 0 in the drivewire.  I can access all the drives 0 to
> 255  no problems.  I copied a nitros9.dsk (one that actuall boots up and has
> the correct clock and all. And it is (good test
> nos96309l2v030209coco3_dw3.dsk 629kb) works well when you boot that up.  So
> anyways I copied it to 255 and run (link:253) and it won't link.  So anyways
> I tried dos 255 and it boots all the way and hangs right before the clock
> and shell prompt
> 
>  
> 
> It goes through the entire white screen where it loads or whatever it doing
> then screen turns green with nitros9 level 2 vers 3.3.0  get all the way to
> end and just sits there before the time and date when you just hit enter and
> it should read the time from drive wire
> 
>  
> 
> I am so sorry for being a pain in the ass  
> 
> But I keep all emails so I can go back and look at it when needed so that's
> my sad story
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> 
> Thanks again Richard Hawk
> 
> Rhawk1 at deskmate.  
> 
> Ps everything going great with vcc and vccemudisk.vhd.  just wanting to get
> the real thing set up now
> 
>  
> 
> Deskmate working like a charm printing with disk basic and nitros9 on the
> vcc side great and also can print through the real coco also
> 
>  
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> That's why I want to use the nitro9.dsk cause it has everything I like on it
> already set up