[Coco] rom swap with eprom?

Steve C. towmater at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 21:41:36 EST 2016


It worked! It's touchy, I had to flow solder onto the cartridge traces to
get the Coco to read the cart, but it seems to be OK once it is running.
CoCoSDC? Where can I buy this magical sounding device?

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Barry Nelson <
barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:

> I believe DW3DOS is only for booting NitrOS9. When I did this, I put the
> latest DriveWire version of HDBDOS in one bank, and a standard RSDOS in the
> second bank. It depends on your hardware what might be most useful. I had
> functional floppy drives, and some software will not run from DriveWire, so
> I put a vanilla RSDOS in the other bank. If you don't have working floppy
> drives or a CoCoSDC then a regular RSDOS won't do you much good and maybe
> you want the instant boot to NitrOS9 in the other bank. If you have a
> floppy controller with RSDOS and an MPI and are installing HDBDOS in a
> separate cartridge, then perhaps have RSDOS as the floppy rom, and
> something like HDBDOS and ADOS in the DriveWire rom cartridge.
>
> So many choices...
>
> > Steve C. towmater at gmail.com
> > Fri Jan 15 11:27:43 EST 2016
> >
> > I've built the Drivewire cartridge using the Commodore instruction page
> > that Barry kindly referenced, and I'm ready to burn an eprom. I imagine
> > that I should have DW3DOS and HDBDOS in different banks? Or is one
> > universally better than the other, and something else should go in bank
> two?
>
>
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