[Coco] Re: Floppy drive/OS9 issue

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net>
>Something that I am trying to understand, though: Joel, you said that 
>RSDOS/Disk BASIC was never updated to use double-sided drives. I could 
>have sworn, though, that with the FD502 disk system this was the
>case?

Nope.  Your friend must have had a customized disk ROM.  I've got an
FD502 and it's rom, Disk BASIC x.1, doesn't support anything but 160K
disks.

There were LOTS of customized disk controller ROMs, ADOS was probably
the best.  I had MyDos from Chris Hawks, but never had a ROM burned of
it.


Willard
-- 
Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
"I've never been to Contempt!  Isn't that somewhere in New Mexico?"
   --- Yacko