[Coco] Setting up a BBS

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Sun Aug 24 16:12:10 EDT 2008


Rod,

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Tim.

Rod Barnhart wrote:
> Another quick update: it finally occurred to me to put the CoCo drive
> in the PC and use DSKINI to transfer COBBS.DSK to a real CoCo floppy.
> So I did, and then I reconnected it to the CoCo3, ran coterm.bas to
> create coterm.bin. Then I ran loader.bas to modify coterm.bin for use
> with the bitbanger. Finally, I ran startup.bas to fire up CoBBS. It
> asked me for the date, day of week, and time, then died with an ?NE
> ERROR IN LINE 190, and the CoCo is frozen solid. Somehow I don't think
> that's what it was supposed to do ;)
>
> A couple of possibilities: CoBBS won't run on a 3 (anyone know if it
> will?), dskini borked the disk (This is a distinct possibility. I made
> several copies. They all die in the same spot.), or I've managed to
> get one of the versions of CoBBS mentioned on
> http://software.bbsdocumentary.com that simply doesn't work.
>
> I'm momentarily stalled again, but I'll run some tests under various
> emulators to see if I can track down my latest problem...
>
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