[Coco] Crunch? Urbane

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

"UBN_IN.TXT" is the source for the "Urbane" preprocessor and is the 
definition of the language.

So unless you want / need to modify the preprocessor it can just be 
considered a sample program.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Crunch? Urbane


> On 6/1/09, Robert Gault wrote:
>> Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Robert Gault says the problem is with VCC, whatever that is.
>>
>> VCC is a Coco3 emulator. It has problems with disk images that are not
>> full sizes - 35 or 40 tracks - when there is data in T0S1. In those
>> cases, the size of the image is calculated from LSN0 as if the disk were
>> an OS-9 disk. That is why the Urbane.dsk image does not work with VCC.
>>
>> What ever was used to create the disk image placed ubn_in.txt in gran 0
>> and then did not populate unused sectors at the end of the image so it
>> is less than a full 35 tracks.
>>
>> --
>
> VCC appears to be interpreting the first several bytes of that disk
> image as some sort of header.  If you use a hex editor program to
> change the first 32 bytes of the file to $FF then VCC will open the
> image and recognize it as a 35 track RSDOS disk.  This has the
> unfortunate side effect of clobbering the first 32 bytes of the
> UBN_IN.TXT file, but I believe that is only a sample program.
>
> Darren
>
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