[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

[Kip Koon]

Hi Juan!
Selecting IDE for everything, or selecting Drivewire for everything, or
selecting an SD card for everything in the beginning sounds like a great
starting point.  Think about being able to use to copy or backup command
between drives in different slots in the MPI as well.  That is a dream of
mine in both HDB-DOS and NitrOS-9 as well.  The software just needs to be
modified to do it.  In any event, I like that as a beginning towards the per
selection idea.  Consider me a beta tester if you like.  I can erase and
reburn my 27128 eprom all day long.  :)  I can hardly wait to see your next
version.  In the past I have not been much of a gamer, but I will make an
exception and test out your button command.  I assume it has to be a basic
game using the joystick so can you recommend one for me to try?  Thank you
again for a fantastic upgrade to HDB-DOS.  ;D
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Juan Castro
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:20 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Juan!
> I just tried WIDTH 51 and WIDTH 64!  They are great!  I love it!  Now 
> I can see better when I list Basic programs on my Coco 1.  This will 
> definitely become my new Coco 1 HDB-DOS Drivewire Eprom image.  I have 
> it running in a Glenside IDE controller.  When will the triple driver 
> version as in IDE, Hard drive, Drivewire for the 16KB HDBDW3CC2 eprom
image be released?

I will have to do some very non-trivial coding in order to implement my idea
of per-drive method selection. I intend to begin with something easier --
you select IDE for everything and it behaves just like normal IDE HDB-DOS
for all drives, then you select DriveWire and it's DriveWire for everybody
etc.

What I lack to make it progress faster isn't time or resources -- it's
stamina. Gaaaaa.

(Although having a very satisfied user is surely stimulating!)

> I remember you mentioned something about that but I don't remember 
> exactly what you said.  By the way, what version number HDB-DOS was 
> this based on and will you be upgrading each new version of HDB-DOS as
they come out?

I'm maintaining it as a patch to the Mercurial repository, i.e. the very
very bleeding edge HDB-DOS code, bugs and all.

> Thanks for an excellent upgrade to HDB-DOS.

Thank you for testing. Hey, did you try the BUTTON() function with a
joystick? It should work as the CoCo 3 version, but only for the first
button of course.

Juan

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