[Coco] Drivewire VHD's

[Bill Pierce]

I may be posting something sililar to what you are referring to on my website (below) soon. I have been trying to organize different VHDs into "themes" Games, Apps, Programming, Music ect... If it turns out like I want, I will be linking them on DaBarnStudio site to share with others. I know how hard it is to gather all the stuff together and I've been at it (downloading) for awhile and have gathered most of everything that's out there. The biggest problem is it seems every program (especially pre-"/DD" days) has it's own agenda as to where support files should be. Some can be patched, some already have patches, some just "run" like they should. Then there's the bootfiles...It seems like half the software requires something special in it's boot... VRN, Nil, Midi, VDG, /R0, ect... it get's annoying at the least.

What I'm tryng to do, is to create VHDs with the RSDOS and OS9 themes on the same VHD. RSDOS Vdisk 255 will have the OS9 boot required to run everything on the OS9 partition. I'm finding a lot of RSDOS software will not run (or run well) in HDBDOS because of the software using direct access to disk routines and other stuff that was modified. Then you run into the problem of the software "hard coded" to access drives 0-3. Some can be patched pretty easily for 0-255, some cannot. BUT, having access to the disks, all on one VHD makes it easy to copy it to a real disk and run it from standard RSDOS. Basic programs are usually the easiest to fix. Just change a few lines of code and it's good to go.


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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
To: Coco <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 1:12 pm
Subject: [Coco] Drivewire VHD's


Is there a site with VHD's pre done for Drivewire?
'm looking for game collections, etc.
Or, is there an easy way to convert the files from a drivepak image to a format 
ompatible with drivewire?

hanks,
ater,
abone
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