[Coco] Trouble with drivewire...

[theother_bob]

Basic programs can easily be modified to know which drive they started from and keep working from the same drive, even if you use commands that require a drive number parameter, such as DSKI$ and DSKO$.

Bob



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael C. Robinson <deemcr at robinson-west.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:52:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Trouble with drivewire...

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 20:42 -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 07:20 PM 11/21/2008, you wrote:
> >I run the drivewire server on a 486 DX2 66 running Windows 98se.
> >
> >I've noticed that dsk images loaded in virtual drive 1 won't read
> >where moving them to virtual drive 0 fixes the problem.  Has anyone
> >else run into trouble using virtual drive 1, 2, or 3?
> >Some examples include Donkey Kong, Pacdude, Mythology, ChessIQ...
> 
> 
> This does not sound like a problem with DriveWire.

It is, I can't use drive 1 for the 2nd disk of Power Stones of Ard II.

> There's lots of software out there that will only run from Drive 0, 
> namely titles that have their own disk I/O code and titles that 
> hardcode the ":0" extension for filenames, and so forth.

ChessIQ is hand typed in from the Rainbow and it ran from a real drive 1
in the past.


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