[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I got my OS-9 Level 1 disk drivers from SDisk1, is that what you remember?

I think that I have DSK files of all my SDisk original disks and doc's.

SHF

> Hi All,

> for the life of me, I cannot remember where I last saw the disk driver for 
> Level 1, nor can I remember its name.

> Can someone help out here? I have scanned through RTSI, and also the files 
> from the Princeton days (now on maltedmedia), but nothing jumps out at me. 
> :(

> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at gmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?


> On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:09:36 am Bob Devries did opine:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> may I be so bold as to point out that Chad H is using Level ONE of OS9?
>>
>> AFAIK, level ONE was HARD CODED for single-sided disks. You needed to
>> replace the floppy driver and descriptors with a modified one
>> (available on RTSI IIRC) to read/write double-sided disks.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> 100% correct.  The original Level 1 version 1.00 also had a different set
> of
> defines in the defsfiles.  I recall getting my disk driver from a
> commercial
> place at the time, possibly ComputerWare, but it would take me the rest of
> the day to find the originals now.
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene