[Coco] A few more questions for the Coco brain trust

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Thu Nov 24 22:56:47 EST 2022


On 11/24/2022 6:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon via Coco wrote:
> It seems like the questions never stop popping into my mind.  :-)
> ...
> 4. One last one.  I just read the white paper on ROMing OS9 into
> the COCO in place of the BASIC ROMs.  On the COCO3 would it be
> possible to create a cartridge that contained OS9 and loaded it
> into RAM to run thus eliminating the size limit caused by the
> size of the BASIC ROMs?  If this is possible, would it also
> be possible to kick the ROM out afterwards and return to 64M
> RAM mode?
>
>
Yes, that is very possible and, yes, you could kick the ROM out and 
return to 64K RAM mode. The thing to keep in mind is that once in ROM 
it's harder to make modifications to the system modules.

-Dave




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