[Coco] f83 for the 6809 -- It'a Alive!

[tim lindner]

In Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/08, tim lindner wrote:
>
>> Chuck Youse wrote:
>>
>>> I am not an expert on the Disk BASIC side of things, but I believe you
>>> are correct; the only "documented" entry point is DSKCON, which does not
>>> deal with FCBs.  You're probably best off just using DSKCON and writing
>>> your own filesystem routines, either compatible with Disk Basic's format
>>> or not!
>>
>> That's good advice, but with DSKCON comes a large portion of BASIC and
>> it's overhead. Whenever I imagine I'm in a position like Brett, I'm
>> always ripping DSKCON from the ROM and make it independant.
>>
>
> That's a good way to make DriveWire users unhappy  :-)

I totally understand where you are coming from. But I also realize
that the modularity of Fourth should make adding DriveWire support
easy.

-- 
tim lindner
tlindner at macmess.org