[Coco] VCC2.0.1 and DriveWire

[Bill Pierce]

Barry, you are correct on the hdbdos roms. It's good to know someone is making use of the wiki I put up LOL
Alternately, the VCC 2.01 installation also contains "hdbdw3bc3 w-offset.rom" & "hdbdw3bck w-offset.rom" which are the same roms you mention with the offsets at $D938, $D939, $D93A already set to $5A000 for use with the dual partioned VHDs (OS9 & RSDOS).
I included these so that the user didn't have to "POKE" the roms each time they run them.

Of course these offsets are different for VHDs formatted for SuperIDE & CocoSDC and would have to be changed. But the offsets work for most dual partitioned VHDs found in the COco archives and on my site.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Nelson <Barry.Nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 11:01 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC2.0.1 and DriveWire


I believe you should be using hdbdw3bc3.rom not hdbdw3bck.rom, FYI.




hdbdw3bc3.rom - The HDBDOS rom patched for use with the Becker
Port

hdbdw3bck.rom - An alternate HDBDOS rom with hi-speed turned off for Coco
2 game compatibility




http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/VCC_1.4.3b_and_DW4_Installation_Guide




 

>        Pere psergm at gmail.com 
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Mon Oct 19 06:41:06 EDT 2015 

 
>         Hello,
>         thanks a lot to all
of you for helping me to get into VCC2.10!!
>         I changed to external ROM
and selected "hdbdw3bck.rom" and it works alright
>         as I said in a
previous message.
 
>         @Bill, you are right, I had copied a pdf manual
from version 1.43b, but the
>         folder comes with "ReadMe-2.01.txt",
sorry!
>         I downloaded the HDB-DOS manual from Cloud9tech website, very
nice.
 
>         @Barry, the '#' trick works flawlessly, great!
 
>        
@Aaron, Changing that parameter in DW4 server works great too, but it seems
>   
that then to access slot 0 as VHD requires DRIVE#n and then DIR ... maybe
>     
I am missing something (?)
 
>         Right now I can access FD-502 or DW4
slots simply with DRIVEON - DRIVEOFF
 
>         I put a bootable NitrOS-9 disk
in slot 0, 
>         "nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk"
>         and it boots
well too.
 
>         again, thanks a lot for being so helpful!!
>         Next
step will be booting right to the NitrOS-9 VHD, but first need to 
>        
practice
>         more in deep with the options I know right now.
 
>        
cheers
>         pere
 

 


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