[Coco] No Nitr(OS-9) in this coco

Stephen Castello zootzoot at cfl.rr.com
Fri Aug 4 23:05:24 EDT 2006


On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:13:32 -0400, Diego Barizo
<diegoba at adinet.com.uy> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>For about a month or so, I didn't use any OS-9 disk, but when earlier 
>this week I went to try a few games, I found that most disks will fail 
>in the boot process, including my custom Nitros-9 disks . This fail 
>after the usual i2xo and then repeats KREL until the screen is filled.
>But when I tried that same disk in a PC running DK's emu, reading the 
>real disk from a 1.2 MB drive, all worked out perfect.
>BASIC disks work also 100% OK on the real coco that refuses to load OS-9.
>In conclusion... the disk is OK because it works with the PC emulator.
>And the drive/controller is OK because it works with any non-OS-9 disk 
>(including games like Ghana Bwana that don't use the standard BASIC format)
>
>Any clues?
>
>Diego

Clean the cartridge port contacts lately on the controller?

Stephen
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