[Coco] Sierra Xmas 86 demo

[Bill Pierce]

@Robert Gault,
I too have been messing with the XMas86 disk and something I've noticed about all the disks in the new builds. The sector sizes are all out of whack in the dw disks and some of the others as well. None of the external dsk sizes are right 311k for 360k, 636k for 720k. These cannot be backed up normally. Some of the 40trks are dmoded as typ=21... this should be typ=20.   typ=21 is a 3.5 disk.  I haven't dmoded them all but I bet the dns=x is wrong on most. It should dns=3 for 3.5 and dns=1 for 5.25
I would assume this is being done in the makefile/scripts that create the diks?

Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Sierra Xmas 86 demo


Charlie Pelosi wrote:
> Thanks Robert. I did get it working by using a DOS computer and writing the 
image with DSKINI /T40 /D
>
> Works great. The images of this demo in the Nitros9 project archive however 
don't seem to work at all.
>
> Charlie
>

Hmmm, if it's the nightly build I wouldn't be surprised.

I just built the disk from the nitros9/3rdparty/packages/sierra/christmas86 
source code and it works perfectly.
There was also a Drivewire version built but that would not boot. Guess I'll 
need to see what is wrong with the DW3 version.

Robert



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