[Coco] Orchestra 90 playing the disk blues

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Thu Jun 9 20:52:30 EDT 2016


> 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

Yes, the disk controller is in slot 4, the Orchestra 90 pak is in slot 1.

Update, I was able to save "WILLIAM" out to disk, but none of my other files which were "supposed" to be Orchestra 90 files will work.


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