Re: Long VTech Floppy Drive Controller

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:COG3c.144874$A12.110890@edtnps84...
: Bill Garber wrote:
: > That would certainly solve the issue, but
: > then I would have to leave out my Slinky
: > Ram card that is in slot 1. I guess I need
: > to go through all my disks and see what will
: > run under 2.0.3 and put it on them. Yes, if
: > I put that on with A2Desktop, then it will
: > map partitions 3 and 4 to slot 2 while it's
: > in slot 7, and if I want to boot from floppy,
: > then control-reset before it's loaded or hit
: > startup drive after it's loaded. Yeah, I'll
: > put 2.0.3 on it and move it to 7. Now, what
: > about my VTech card? I can use the Laser ROM
: > in it? And how about cables? Anything on that
: > yet?
:
: I use Prosel 8 as my main program launcher and one of
: the choices is A2Desktop for the odd times I want a GUI.
: The Laser ROM will work fine in your VTech card. Actually
: they're both VTech cards as VTech made the Laser. Also sort
: of the same card.  When VTech went to make the Laser computer
: they didn't want to use that many chips with the built-in
: floppy controller so they combined a lot of them into a custom
: chip. Now that they had the custom chip it was cheaper to
design
: a new UDC card then continue with the old one.
: I haven't made a trip to my storage yet. If I don't get by
there
: sooner I have to pass by Sunday. Once I have the card here I
can
: quickly get the pinout.

Being this is my second suggestion to use ProSel 8,
I guess I should just load it onto my hard drive right
away and quit messing around. I don't like A2Desktop
flashing my hard drive light continuously anyway.  8o)
Just tried laser_udc in place of vtech_udc and the card
would not work. It booted up to the BASIC prompt, but
"PR#6" just hung there. Put the original ROM back in and
then it booted to BASIC, and "PR#6" booted the floppy, so
I figure once I have a proper cable system, I should be
just fine. It's been fun getting stuff that isn't complete
or working and make it complete and working, but it is
beginning to get old.  8o) Sunday, huh? Well, I guess I
have other things I can do in the interim. I appreciate
all the help. That goes for you too, Michael.  8o)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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