[Coco] Help with Nitros9 on SDC?

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Thu Jan 13 11:05:56 EST 2022


On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:24:47 -0500
Don Barber <don at dgb3.net> wrote:

> Openned it up (again) to check. Nothing seemed loose. Pushed
> everything down to double-check; no change in behavior. Thanks for
> the suggestion.
> 
> Don
> 
> On 1/12/22 4:16 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> > I know that Nick Marentes has found that the main chip in the SDC
> > sometimes works it’s way loose and becomes erratic. He usually
> > tried to push it back down, or clean it with contact cleaner and
> > then reseat it. Maybe that might work in your case?
> >
> > L. Curtis Boyle
> > curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> >
> > TRS-80 Color Computer Games website
> > http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html
> >
> > NitrOS-9 Ease of Use (EOU) Project
> > http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 12, 2022, at 2:19 PM, Don Barber <don at dgb3.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good idea. But same issue.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Don
> >>
> >> On 1/12/22 9:41 AM, michaelkline704 at gmail.com wrote:
> >>> Hi Don,
> >>>
> >>> This is just a thought... It may help to point more to the SDC.
> >>> Do a RUN at 1 command to have it just load DECB instead of the
> >>> combined SDC command structure. Then boot NITROS and see if you
> >>> can get it loaded.
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >
> 

    Cartridge connections all shiny and clean?? That's usually the case
when my SDC (or Floppy Controller or MPI) start messing up.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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