#: 20361 S5/OS9 Users Group
    12-Sep-94  23:01:31
Sb: #20355-#OS/9 won't work - HELP!
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: Jean Gagnon 72164,2020 (X)

 > Thanks for the reply... Glad to hear that some of the disks might work
 > without OS/9... Maybe sticking in the Deft Pascal and staring at it for a
 > while will let me regain some confidence!

To check for the non-OS/9 disks, under RS-DOS (what you start up in), insert
them individually and do a "dir" on them... if text shows up, they are DISK
BASIC disks and you can run them without OS/9.  Do you have docs for any of
them?

 > No, I never get to the error stage of my OS/9 boot up... Even an error
 > would be more satisfying (in a strange kind of way)...

 > Unfortunately with this one EVERYTHING could be a problem since its all
 > new to me....

Well, unless the disk is glitched, it should boot (although it doesn't). Since
it was with the CoCo 3, it SHOULD be either Level 1, Version2, or Level 2, but,
just in case, if you know someone who has a coco 2, you might try to boot on
it.  If it is level 2, it won't boot on the coco 2, but if it does boot and
says "Version 2" (of either level), then it is incompatible with the coco3.  Do
you have the games Flight Simulator 2, King's Quest, Rogue, koronis Rift, or
anything that says it's for the coco 3?  Any of these operate under OS/9..  On
some of these, you can exit to the DOS, and then you might be able to do dir's
on some of the disks you have in question. (Not the RS-DOS disks, I mean the
OS/9 disks)... One catch, all Standard disks are single-sided, and as supplied,
don't support double-sided disks, and the disks in question might be
double-sided..  Double-sided disks will boot, but the disks that come from
Radio Shack are not set up to support the double-sided disks.

However, you might look through your disks and look for another boot disk.

 >  But, I've never been one to give up.....I had a Beta VCR for
 > years after they virtually disappeared from the face of the earth too :-)

OK, you've got me convinced 


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