[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Feb 17 21:43:09 EST 2017


> On Feb 12, 2017, at 2:57 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Like I suggested earlier, Alan ought to try POKE&HFF7F,&H23 to see if that
> gives access to the floppy drive.  It is puzzling that his system worked
> before without it, if indeed the RGBDOS code does not set $FF7F for the
> floppy controller slot.  Could there be a configure program that does
> this?  Or possibly a default Basic program that RGBDOS is supposed to run
> when it boots up that sets $FF7F?


Mystery partially solved. I had a ROM in the KenTon controller, so I must have booted in the past with the selector to that slot. Not sure how I got the physical drive to work, but maybe I didn’t use it much or had a POKE program somewhere.




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