[Coco] Disk drive interface question...extended basic required to use it?

[Ivan Browning]

You will need extended basic to use disk basic.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Walter Miraglia <walter.miraglia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I purchased a disk drive FD 500 and 26-3129 controller. I was able to test
> them at VCFMW and they both worked great (thanks again guys).  I brought
> them home. Then I unpacked my recent eBay purchase and set it up. It
> powered up and all keys work.  ( a COCO 2 ) with 16 k ram (expandable to 64
> with 2 64x4 ram chips)  version  1.3 basic in the standard 8 k rom (but
> switchable to 16k because the rom socket on the motherboard is 28 pin).
>
> I plugged in the controller and the boot message at the top of the screen
> did not indicate disk basic like it did when we tested it at the show.    I
> cleaned the contacts on the cartridge port and cleaned the contacts on the
> cartridge but no luck.
>
> I think I remember Neil saying I would need extended basic before the disk
> basic would work.  Can anyone confirm this?   I was going to burn a 16 k
> 27128 this evening as soon as I find the file and then change the jumper
> setting on the board to 128k.
>
> The testing was all done with COCO 3's which I am hoping to get soon,  and
> we know this cart does not require 12 volts as it worked fine in the COCO
> 3.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have another cart to test with to verify its not the
> COCO 2 with basic 1.3.
>
> Help?   :0)
>
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