[Coco] CoCoNet is CoCo 3 ready

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Mon Dec 22 10:20:01 EST 2008


Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 01:59 AM 12/22/2008, you wrote:
>> I hardly remember that using corresponding POKE (65345?), you could 
>> instruct the MPI, from which slot to select the ROM, overriding the 
>> MPI-switch setting. However, I don't remember what happened on a 
>> "button" reset.
>
> I'm talking about the Disto Super Controller's ROM selector.  My 
> controller has 4 sockets for EPROMs.  It now appears that just a 
> simple POKE 65345,x and hitting RESET will switch in the CoCoNet ROM 
> without having to warm start.  It took me a while to figure out what 
> was going on.
>
I guess something similar could be achieved using Cloud-9's Super IDE, 
right?
I should be able to load the patch from a disk, and then copy the 
patched ROM to one of the S.IDE flash banks.
Has any test been done with this?

Diego




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