[Coco] running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Robert Emery]

--- "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Robert Emery wrote:
> 
> > Something I've found now that I'm using HDB-DOS with a real HD...
> > many games run fine from the HD, including most or all of Nick M's
> > games (cool!) but many, even some that are a single binary file,
> > lock up as they attempt to access the floppy drive.
> 
> Bob, can you provide a specific program that his this behavior?
 
PACDUDE2.BIN is the best example I can think of at the moment.
I tried copying it to HD1. I set DRIVEON and LOADM"PACDUDE2
Some loading starts, then FD1 lights and the game hangs.
If I have PACDUDE2.BIN on the floppy also, it will load and
run from there (even if I started if from HD1).

I've been copying and "testing" so many games these past few
days I can't remember what's what... I am building a list of
games & apps that can be launched from withing FOG.

Another thing that comes to mind is the possibility of
backing up my HDB-DOS partition or entire drive. Granted,
I have my original floppies and dozens of downloaded DSKs,
it's the process of arranging them onto the drive that is
a lot of work. Fun at times, but tedious nonetheless.

HDB-DOS can only access one drive, Master or Slave, right?
Could a utility be written that would 
1) detect both drives HDB-DOS partitions
2) swap between (CHS/LBA or Master/Slave) driver overlay
   (assuming one is CHS, the other LBA)
3) copy a disk/range of disks/all disks between Master<->Slave 

Meanwhile, I am going to attempt to use ghost on a PC
to backup the entire drive to an image or another drive.
Will report back on my failures. ;-)

cheers,
Bob

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