[Coco] Software testing for FDC emulator
Darren A
mechacoco at gmail.com
Mon May 23 11:31:49 EDT 2011
On 4/25/11, Robert Gault wrote:
>
> John Donaldson wrote:
>> RE:.....The program (which is an ml one) uses the Index Hole timing pulse
>> to
>> read disks with its own disk I/O routines.
>>
>>
>> There is the problem. When non-standard IO calls are made then yes
>> emulated Disk
>> operation is at risk.
>>
>>
>> John Donaldson
>
> There is nothing non-standard about using the Index status bit with type I
> commands. You probably meant not supported by the Tandy DOS. :)
>
>
--
I finally got around to adding index pulse generation to the FDC
emulation hardware. That did indeed fix the problems with "The 7th
Link" and "Caladuril 2", both of which are now loading properly.
Darren
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