Thanks to Twilighte (Really, THANK YOU mate!) I now have a blank Cumana PCB sitting on my desk, begging me to fill it with parts and hook it up to my Atmos .. So that is what I'm going to do as soon as I can possibly get all the parts together - may not be so easy, as many of the parts are so outdated that it could be a while, but I'm going to try ..
Anyway, the question is: what do I do once I get the board built, a floppy hooked up, and so on? I'm guessing I'm going to need a boot-floppy with Sedoric on it .. but how do I get that boot floppy made? From another system, perhaps through the generosity of another Cumana/Oric user?
My main purpose for bugging Twilighte to send me this board was so that I could finally get a disc interface for my Atmos and hack around with it, and thats what I'm going to be doing - if it works out, I will use this rig to figure out how to make a floppy emulator using either a FPGA or some other Micro-controller so that we can use SD cards .. but it just dawned on me that even if I get this card built and working, I still have a bit of a hurdle to jump over, software-wise. As in, I'll need someone who has a similar working setup to send me a floppy!
So what do you guys think? How should I proceed with getting this system bootstrapped? I'm on the hunt for parts now, so I hope we can discuss this in the meantime ..
I got a CUMANA Board, now what ?
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Ah I did not know it was so easy! Great!
One thing though, I'm guessing I need the ROM BIOS code for the Cumana interface from somewhere .. anyone know where that is floating around?
Sorry to be asking all these dumb questions, I'm just trying to get things together so I can, in earnest, get this project done as quickly as possible ..
One thing though, I'm guessing I need the ROM BIOS code for the Cumana interface from somewhere .. anyone know where that is floating around?
Sorry to be asking all these dumb questions, I'm just trying to get things together so I can, in earnest, get this project done as quickly as possible ..