[Coco] Will Cloud-9 Super IDE work with SDC?

Richard E. Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Thu Jul 16 01:13:06 EDT 2015


On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:45:14 -0700
"K. Pruitt" <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard E. Crislip"
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Will Cloud-9 Super IDE work with SDC?
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:11:48 -0400
> > Brett Gordon  wrote:
> >
> >> Chester,
> >>
> >> hardware-wise, I can say they work fine together.  I have done it
> >> with an MPI, and I suspect a even a Y-cable will work.
> >> Software-wise, Nitros9 will work them together, and HDBDOS and
> >> YA-DOS will work them together in an BASIC environment.  HDBDOS is
> >> restricted to using the SDC as just another floppy, where YA-DOS
> >> allows for SDC's LBA mode too.  YA-DOS also allows for the BASIC
> >> scripting of SDC and Drivewire control (mounting and unmounting of
> >> disk images, making new images, etcc...), and inherent MPI control.
> >>
> >> -B
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Chester A Patterson wrote:
> >>
> >> > Will the Cloud 9 Super IDE work OK with the SDC?
> >> > My guess that it depends which slot in the MPI they are and which
> >> > slot is selected (MPI switch) upon power up.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > Chester
> >> > Costa Rica
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >
> > <ignorant mode>
> >
> > What is YA-DOS? Never heard of until just now. TIA
> >
> > </ignorant node>
> >
> > -- 
> 
> 
> Here's the site about it:
> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos
> 
> The readme.txt file inside of the zip files available for download
> contains a pretty extensive description of YA-DOS and all the nice
> features it adds for drivewire and cocosdc support and partitioning.
> 
> I installed it in one of the flash banks of my cocosdc. I haven't
> played around with it much yet as I tend to turn on the CoCo and type
> DOS. But it seems to be pretty darn awesome.
> 
> YA-DOS, CoCo-Boot and MShell are looking like the best candidates for 
> creating a really great CoCo interface from boot all the way through
> to a user-friendly GUI for NitrOS-9. At least in my opinion.

WHat's the difference between the YADOS-1b and the YADOS-2B? TIA


More information about the Coco mailing list