[Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

[Frank Pittel]

You will need at least one floppy drive to set things up. The setup program
for hdb dos will help you the offset. I would also suggest that you install
the hdb-dos rom image in one of the flash banks on your Superide. This way
you can start your coco and access the superide without a floppy.

Frank


On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:51:31AM -0700, Jim Cox wrote:
> My plan is to set up my CoCo system so that it will boot into HBD-D0S and/or
> NitrOS-9 from a SuperIDE.  I know I need to load the images of HBD-DOS /
> NitrOS-9 onto a CF card connected to my SuperIDE.
> 
> Once the CoCo has booted up, I then want it to be able to connect my CoCo
> system to a PC via DriveWire.  The host PC is a Dell GX100 with Windows
> 2000, and has the ability to recognize 360K 5 1/4 and 720K 3 1/3 drives.  I
> plan to run MESS and VCC on this PC, and possibly other emulators and
> development apps.
> 
> I don't want anyone to tell me how to do this, because that would take the
> fun out of it.  What I could use though is some advice and insight about
> what I need to consider when setting up the CoCo system as I described.
> 
> I know that RTFMs will be required, so no need to repeat that :-)
> 
> How helpful will an MPI be in this configuration?  Should I also connect
> disk drives to the CoCo?  Any hints about driver issues?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim Cox
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