[Coco] HDB-DOS wish list

[alsplace at pobox.com]

Ben,

I will dig up my article about RGB-DOS and the Kenton interface for 
you/others.  It detailed an easy way to "bank" drives and use as many 
as you wanted -- not as nice as being integrated into RGB-DOS, but a 
functional way to have hundreds of drives available with a simple 
utility menu (RUN"XXX")  on a drive in each bank to do the dirty work 
for you.

As to extentions to basic, Sub-Etha Software's (my old CoCo company) 
product, MultiBasic, did a trick to commands to support multiple memory 
blocks.  GOTO 100/2 to go to line 100 in bank 2, for example, and other 
commands were modified to load into different banks.  The same thing 
could apply to RGB-DOS type systems, in fact, and perhaps this patch 
could easily just swap out the offsets behind the scene.  IE:

LOADM"FILE:14#2" would be intercepted and do the offset pokes to get to 
the Bank 2 setup... This type of patch might be very easy to do on top 
of HGB-DOS without any need to changing the DOS itself.

     -- Allen