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

[Boisy Pitre]

Jim,

I don't want to spoil the fun, because going through the exercise is a  
neat experience, as you noted.  But as Frank stated, you will need a  
floppy drive to at least get HDB-DOS setup and burned into the flash  
of the SuperIDE.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Apr 5, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Jim Cox wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Yeah, I figured I would need a disk drive to set up the SuperIDE with
> HBD-DOS, and NitrOS-9.  After that is done, I should only need to  
> use a disk
> drive locally only if I am not using Drive Wire, or at least that is  
> my
> hope.
>
> I believe some Basic programs may require a local disk drive, but  
> those are
> mostly games from what I have picked up from the list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim Cox
> http://miba51.blogspot.com/
> http://geekswhocare.blogspot.com/
> http://8-bit-retro-computing.blogspot.com/
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>> http://miba51.blogspot.com/
>>> http://geekswhocare.blogspot.com/
>>> http://8-bit-retro-computing.blogspot.com/
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