[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Feb 14 14:32:53 EST 2017


> On Feb 14, 2017, at 1:26 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes this is actually normal. With the B&B MFM setup I had, Kenton, and
> SuperIDE I always put the main ROM image into a EPROM chip and had that in
> the floppy controller and always had the MPI set for slot 4.
> 
> As a few people have posted in reply you can do a POKE to set the MPI to
> set the hardware slot to 4, but if you hit the reset button that will cause
> the MPI to reset the hardware control back to the slot that the switch is
> set to.  In most cases though the POKE in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file will work
> fine except in cases where you have to use the reset button.

This makes sense. This means that, at some point, I either had a ROM in the KenTon, or replaced the ROM in my floppy controller. I have no idea how I had it all working when I copied all my floppies a year or so back :)

Thanks, all.

		-- A




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