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

[Boisy Pitre]

Rick,

HDB-DOS's installation process includes running a BASIC program which  
will ask you if you want to compensate for an OS-9 partition;  
answering yes yields further questions regarding size of the  
partition, etc.

This process can be fraught with problems for the inexperienced, and  
it's for that reason we offer a customization service.

Boisy

On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Rick Taylor wrote:

> If you wanted to set things up so that you have a RSDOS partition  
> but also
> an OS/9 / Nitros9 partition, what's the general plan of attack for  
> that?
> That's hopefully the direction I am going and what I am wanting to  
> build.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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