[Coco] Booting OS9 on my CoCo 3

David Ladd davidwladd at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 23:17:56 EDT 2017


Barry,

Wouldn't the DWDOS be a smaller file for use with the cassette?  Just
asking :D

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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
> wrote:

> > Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
> > Tue Aug 8 12:58:42 EDT 2017
> >
> > Ok, I just burned a ROM with 'dw4dos_mb_cc3.rom'. I installed it in my
> > CoCo and when I boot up the screen says, "DW3 CC3 BOOT FAILED". I don't
> > have a serial cable made up yet but should I assume that's ok so far?
> > Even though the file is called "dw4dos..." the screen is saying DW3.
> >
> > Dave
>
> For Drivewire you might want this rom instead of the NitrOS9 boot only ROM
> you are currently using. This ROM will also boot NitrOS9 using the DOS
> command, but will also allow access to Drivewire from Extended Color BASIC.
>
> Here is the rom file
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZTm9nbVJnaEVnOUk/
> view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/
> 0B8RnV5G0TZFZTm9nbVJnaEVnOUk/view?usp=sharing>
>
> Here is a copy on a disk image in both ROM and loadable BIN format, just
> LOADM and exec
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZcEVac0dtWUxVU1E/
> view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/
> 0B8RnV5G0TZFZcEVac0dtWUxVU1E/view?usp=sharing>
> LOADM"HDBDW3C3.BIN”
> EXEC
>
> This is a cassette WAV file, load it on your mobile phone or laptop and
> play it to the CoCo’s cassette interface.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZeUxtOXhEN3dzbjg/
> view?usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/file/d/
> 0B8RnV5G0TZFZeUxtOXhEN3dzbjg/view?usp=sharing>
>
> These are all for a CoCo 3, although the disk image above contains
> versions for other types of CoCo systems as well.
>
> Here is the wiring information on how to create a cable. If you don’t have
> a 4 pin din plug, if you can find some thick solid wire you can cut 4 short
> pieces to use as pins and just stick them into the CoCo serial socket.
>
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/images/d/da/CoCo-serial-cable.png <
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/images/d/da/CoCo-serial-cable.png>
>
> Here is a good resource for more information about Drivewire…
>
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_DriveWire <
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_DriveWire>
>
>
>
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