SD2IEC on the FE3 Cartridge
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:26 am
Hi,
I have been lurking for a bit as I reacquainted myself with my Vic20 but during that time, I bought an FE3 and predominately been using it as a RAM expansion. Recently I have tried to use the SD2IEC part of the FE3 but with no luck so I am hoping for some pointers on what to do next to get it to work for me as I am sure I am missing something simple.
It's an FE3 rev 11. v3.2, r022d.
When I try and use the disk loader from the FE3 menu, it goes to a blank page and returns to the FE3 menu. When I attempt to load from the SD2IEC like a disk ie load "8",8 it returns device not present. A # returns 'DEVICE#8' so the vic knows there should be something there. To make sure I had not set the SD card up wrong, I used an external SD2IEC I also have. I downloaded a zip file of games with menus setup etc for the FE3 from this site and extracted it to the SD card. When using the external SD2IEC I can access the device like a normal disk drive etc. When I have the external SD2IEC plugged in at the same time as the FE3, when I select the disk loader option in the menu, it loads the menu from the external SD2IEC fine and allows me to load and use the contents of the SD card fine.
Due to this I feel that there is something I am not doing right on the FE3 side of things. Would an upgrade to r022e be advisable?
Thanks.
I have been lurking for a bit as I reacquainted myself with my Vic20 but during that time, I bought an FE3 and predominately been using it as a RAM expansion. Recently I have tried to use the SD2IEC part of the FE3 but with no luck so I am hoping for some pointers on what to do next to get it to work for me as I am sure I am missing something simple.
It's an FE3 rev 11. v3.2, r022d.
When I try and use the disk loader from the FE3 menu, it goes to a blank page and returns to the FE3 menu. When I attempt to load from the SD2IEC like a disk ie load "8",8 it returns device not present. A # returns 'DEVICE#8' so the vic knows there should be something there. To make sure I had not set the SD card up wrong, I used an external SD2IEC I also have. I downloaded a zip file of games with menus setup etc for the FE3 from this site and extracted it to the SD card. When using the external SD2IEC I can access the device like a normal disk drive etc. When I have the external SD2IEC plugged in at the same time as the FE3, when I select the disk loader option in the menu, it loads the menu from the external SD2IEC fine and allows me to load and use the contents of the SD card fine.
Due to this I feel that there is something I am not doing right on the FE3 side of things. Would an upgrade to r022e be advisable?
Thanks.