[Coco] Good news: my CoCo 3 is back to life!

[Mark Marlette]

Chris,

Your rusty is good! :)

You are correct.

For those of you that have been arouind for awhile...Rusty was a name  
of a program..... :) By Alan DeKok, IIRC.

Mark


Quoting Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net>:

> Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> My friend Daniel brought my CoCo 3 back to life, he reisntalled the 512 Kb
>> expansion board and ta-da!!!!! It works!!!!
>>
>> http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t191/garrettimus/coco.jpg
>>
>> :-D
>>
>> Unfortunately, he couldn´t get the disk drive to work. We do not know if the
>> HDB-DOS EPROM could be the problem, since DriveWire is not connected yet,
>> only the disk drive itself. Is there any commands to load actual floppies
>> when DriveWire is disconnected? He typed a command to load a game, but
>> nothing happened. We haven´t been using the Multi-Pak either, just the disk
>> drive interface/disk drive unit. Is the Multi-Pak needed because of the 12
>> volt current?
>>
>> We are a little lost here, totally newbies in terms of CoCo.
>
> 	YAY!!!
>
> 	I'm a little rusty (on HDB-DOS), but, if I remember correctly it
> defaults to the alternate floppys (Drivewire or hard drive) at power up.
>
> 	Try:
> DRIVE OFF	(use real floppys, DRIVE ON will use Drivewire, manual p30)
> DIR 0
> 	The drive light should come on and you'll hear the head seeking.
> Insert a disk. Type:
> DIR 0
> RUN "NAMEofPROGRAM"	(with the quotes)
>
> -- 
> Christopher R. Hawks
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