[Coco] A cartridge to hack

[Mark Marlette]

Currently, the SuperIDE ships with Drivewire in bank 3 and HDB-DOS / NitrOS-9 boot in Flash bank 2. HDB-DOS is on virtual drive #4, SuperIDE Utilities on vd #5. I could send SuperIDE .dsk to mount on server.

As William stated on FLASHing, that is the case, two free banks left over. As I recall, 100,000 write life cycle. Should be good for awhile.


Depending on where your source, compiling is being done....If on server, use Aaron's SIDEwalk utility. If compiling on sIDE, then everything is right there.

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com


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 From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] A cartridge to hack
 
On 12-09-20 11:03 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> I'm not really familiar with SuperIDE as I don't have one, but unless you plan on typing each rom by hand then flashing, test, crash, then repeat, yes, you would :-)
> Or will Drivewire work? I know there's issues with Drivewire & SuperIDE and copying from one to the other.

If you're just using the superide as a ROM scheme, you can flash one of 
the ROMs with the drivewire ROM and operate using drivewire for storage. 
That works just fine. Nothing says you have to use the IDE interface 
just because you are flashing one of the ROM slots. Of course, that 
requires getting the drivewire ROM into it in the first place. I'm sure 
if you asked nicely, Mark would be able to do that for you when you 
order it but it can also be done using other tools, even without a 
floppy drive.

On the other hand, if you were trying to copy a file on drivewire to, 
say, the flash card in the superIDE, then yes, that is problematic.

>
> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 12:57 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] A cartridge to hack
>
>
> yep, but you still need floppy and a multipack to be able to do that
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> <<buy a superIDE, also a multipack and a floppy disk drive and a controller :P
>>
>> Actually, not a bad idea, the SuperID has 4 flashable ROMs that you could test
> rom code on. Then when you get something you like, burn it to eprom and make
> your pak
>>
>> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>> Bill Pierce
>> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 12:35 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] A cartridge to hack
>>
>>
>> buy a superIDE, also a multipack and a floppy disk drive and a controller :P
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Robert Hermanek
>> <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
>>> ROM's are socketed in rs-232 and drive controller paks generally... ?  Not
>>> that you would want to ruin one of these cartridges, but pretty easy to swap
>>> out a ROM without damage...
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce W. Calkins"
>>> <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:12 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] A cartridge to hack
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Early ROM packs had 4k ROMs or two 4k ROMs.  A few had 8k DIP ROMs,
>>>> however they were not directly convertable to EPROM configuration without
>>>> some hacking.  Later ROM packs had blobs without accessable chips.
>>>>
>>>> You would probably be better off finding a expermenter's card and wireing
>>>> up your own ROM card.  However ones fitting the CoCo are not common now.
>>>>
>>>> Bruce W.
>>>>
>>>> ==========================
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Castro"
>>>>
>>>>> I want a simple thing: a CoCo 1/2 cartridge that uses a 16 KB ROM
>>>>> (C000-FEFF) so I can replace it with a socket and burn and test
>>>>> homebrew ROMs until the cows come home. What should I buy?
>>>>>
>>>>> Juan
>>>>
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