[Coco] Orchestra 90 playing the disk blues

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 19:06:05 EDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:

>
> According to the Orchestra 90 documentation:
>
> DIR :number
> Display the diskette's directory.
> Set up Orchestra-90 CC to run with a disk system.
>
> If you have a disk system, you can verify the directory's contents by
> typing D, a space, a colon, and the drive number, followed by
> [ENTER]. This command displays the names of only the Orchestra-90
> CC music files on the diskette. It also sets up the system for using dis-
> kettles rather than cassette tapes. For example, to check Drive 1's direc-
> tory, type:
>
>     D :1 [ENTER]
>
> The directory for that diskette then appears on the screen.
> =========================================================
>
> I am having a lot of issues getting this to work, I keep getting error 7.
> Any suggestions?




Do you have the disk controller in slot 4 of an MPI?  That is the slot
which the Orch90 targets for disk operations.


- Darren


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