[Coco] Can't run Telewriter-64 from CoCoSDC

[Michael Rowen]

That works! Thanks, Darren. I was unaware that I could still access sdram in this way.

Cheers,
-Mike Rowen







Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Mike wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe this is a known issue? I didn't get any hits when searching the mail
>> list archive.
>>
>> I'm having a strange issue on my CoCo 2 with SDC. If I run Telewriter-64
>> from an SDRAM image, it hangs after the "COGNITEC" splash page.  Normally,
>> the disk is accessed a few times before the TW main menu appears, however,
>> I don't see any LED activity on the SDC after the splash page.
>>
>> I can copy from the SDC to a real floppy disk (BACKUP command) and TW runs
>> fine from a real floppy disk. I even tried copying TW-64 from an old TW-64
>> disk to the SDC and I get the same results - it doesn't want to run
>> directly from the SDC.
>>
>> I've tried two different SDCs (both MCU v116 / SDC-DOS 1.2) with two
>> different CoCo 2s, with and without a multi-pak. Nothing seems to change
>> the result. The CoCos were a 26-3127 and 26-3127B. Diagnostics on the
>> CoCo2s have passed without issue.
>>
>
>
>It may be that TW-64 doesn't get along well with the patches present in
>SDC-DOS.  Assuming you have standard Disk Basic 1.1 present in flash bank
>1, try mounting the TW-64 disk using SDC-DOS, then entering RUN @1 to
>re-boot into plain DECB before starting the program.
>
>- Darren
>
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