[Coco] MOOH cartridge dual boot demo

[Alex Evans]

Gene,
Presumably if that were the case then everyone would have the problem.

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:53 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 29 April 2019 01:11:15 Alex Evans wrote:
>
> > What are you using for an SD card? I have tried several and the result
> > is always the same. I can boot into either FUZIX or Nitros9, but the
> > first write to the file system.corrupts the card.
> >
> I'd bet thats related to the card being a 512 byte "sector" and all the
> coco systems are 256 byte sectors.  Someplace in an nitros9 descriptor
> is a switch bit that might fix that, probably at a cost of half the
> cards capacity.  Take a good read of superdesc.asm from the nitros9
> srcs.
>
> I've got an fdc chip in this nearly $300 Asus mobo that is so allergic to
> a 256 byte sector disk that it locks this machine up tight, the only
> recovery is to eject the disk and hit the power switch till it times out
> and kills the power.
>
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 00:46 Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> > > Here's a short demo video of the MOOH cartridge in action on a Coco
> > > 2. Tormod Volden has sent me a few to make available at CocoFEST for
> > > anyone interested.
> > >
> > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/YFD4iRMtV8ami2tr7
> > >
> > > My Coco 2 has a CoCoVGA board in it and will take advantage of the
> > > fantastic 64 column mode.
> > >
> > > More information about the MOOH can be found at Tomod's site:
> > >
> > > http://tormod.me/mooh.html
> > > <
> > > http://tormod.me/mooh.html?fbclid=IwAR23YlMeW3vc2B-gFl-UCRr7oR5kVjEj
> > >JhX0gfb3N1tTL8G51sTBB-xJgrI
> > >
> > > https://nitros9.sourceforge.io/mooh/
> > > <
> > > https://nitros9.sourceforge.io/mooh/?fbclid=IwAR1pMbu9iuqiUoaJe4E5pv
> > >9N9iLKkkjILtLXth_YZTda6eH5riwG-UL2hfA
> > >
> > >
> > > More information about the CoCoVGA can be found at:
> > >
> > > http://www.cocovga.com/
> > > <
> > > https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocovga.com%2F%3Ffbc
> > >lid%3DIwAR2V8nkiDDXmSUzQItN4GnTxwyeQG5B_fEDsFj2MUk5vLjjXEyFpMMvKY9Y&h
> > >=AT1qa-baOS7bEBfFr6BMd6wPXAR9sjaToTdjgLjwrSmSXeo_aAwHiHmGIOwl0on3ipsV
> > >YMGQb-MzBbDhHZqtN9d3a5pVu6VrcTOdQj2ZEDMYQEnPeWG-HQSiwEVJ-TycVW38CQM7X
> > >3SFqlb1
> > >
> > >
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>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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