[Coco] CoCo FDD controller with ADOS 1.01

[Oswaldo Aquique]

Thanks so much for the details! I'm now feel at ease :)

Cheers,
Oswaldo

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Rogelio Perea
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:47 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo FDD controller with ADOS 1.01

On Wed Jan 10, 2018, Oswaldo Aquique wrote:

Hi,
> Got a CoCo floppy disk controller (26-3029) from eBay and it came with 
> ADOS 1.01 loaded in ROM.
>
> Pros/Cons? (I'm not familiarized with ADOS and the BASIC version included).
>
> Is there a way to get a copy of the original ROM for this adapter?
>

It's by all means better than the stock "DOS" (RSDOS) Tandy provided, its compatibility one of the closest to RSDOS while providing bug fixes and enhanced usability.

You can find its documentation here -

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Operating%20Systems/

The original ROM dumps are also in the Archive, you'd have to burn (or have someone with the capability) to burn an EPROM and install that in the controller.

To try RSDOS you can also issue a DISABLE command when your CoCo boots into ADOS, that will wipe the ADOS extensions and leave you with plain vanilla RSDOS


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