[Coco] Drivewire help needed

[Todd Wallace]

Jeremy,

Games that use DOS boot command are OS9 games.  OS9 requires certain modules that allow it to boot over Drivewire.  I don't know about the specifics on how to convert the image for use with Drivewire but Aaron does. He can explain it much better than me.

- Todd

On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Jeremy Michea wrote:

> Strange that I've never seen these messages before today. Nothing ever showed up in that log window before.
> 
> Would you happen to know why drivewire wouldn't load games like Zenix (just goes to a black screen and nothing) or any game that uses a "DOS" command. I get an OS9 boot prompt but again, it just freezes the coco or hangs even though all these games work fine under VCC.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire help needed
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Michea <jmichea at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>> Hello I'm hoping to get some help from the community with a little drivewire problem I've been having.
>>> 
>>> I've been using drivewire just fine using the cassette cable method of getting the HDB-DOS rom loaded but got tired of the constant loading so I ordered and recieved the rompak version of HDB-DOS today.
>>> I loaded up my coco 3 with the rompak and then I loaded up drivewire as I usually do and loaded a virtual disk as I've done many times before, but now the drivewire server gives me a steady stream of "checksum" errors like this:
>>> 
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[614] Checksum[26101] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[615] Checksum[29408] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[616] Checksum[25969] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[617] Checksum[26288] Error[0]
>> 
>> These are very normal and are not errors at all.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> I went back and tried the cassette cable method of loading the DOS and got the same checksum errors. I then dug out another coco 3 and with both methods of loading DOS I get the same errors. So I thought perhaps its the USB-to-9pin serial adaptor I have even though it has worked fine with drivewire up to this point.
>>> 
>>> I then tried an older PC with a built in 9 pin serial port, which again, has worked just fine with drivewire in the past. Same thing using 2 different coco's, two different methods of loading DOS, and two different windows XP based PC's.
>>> 
>>> I've checked the control panel and the settings for the serial port and tried different settings such as 115,200 baud but no settings on either PC gave different results, just a steady stream of checksum errors.
>>> 
>>> So in short I've tried:
>>> 
>>> 2 different coco 3's (128k and 512k)
>>> 2 different windows XP machines
>>> 2 different methods of loading DOS
>>> 
>>> The only constant I can think of is the drivewire cable itself but again, its been flawless up to this point.
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions or opinions are very welcome.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
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