[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

[Juan Castro]

Still avoiding the complications of IDE, so I took on virtualizing
printing. Now I can print to DW's virtual printer! But there's a
catch.

LLIST prints all lines without newlines between then. Also, I have to
force a flush with PRINT#-2 in order to even that to show up. Well, at
least PRINT#-2 works as advertised. I set it up so whenever a CR, LF
or FF character is printed, I send a flush command. The text shows up
in the cocoprints directory as it should.

Examining the LLIST code (which is LIST with DEVNUM set as -2) I see
it has the brilliant idea of not using CR or LF, but just outputs
spaces until the "device position" reaches the "device width".

OH NOW I GET IT. I should be updating the device position every time I
output a character. Excuse me.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No new functionality but a neat tweak. I added syntax to the DRIVE
> command to select the I/O method (or "line"):
>
> DRIVE LINE 0 <- 38kbps DW
> DRIVE LINE 1 <- 57kbps DW
> DRIVE LINE 2 <- Becker port
>
> Also, I decided to give this concoction a reasonable-sounding name:
> R+DOS-16. The 16 should be self-explanatory. R+ is the name of the
> blog me and a bunch of others edit -- Retrocomputaria Plus.
>
> The ROM:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16k-hdbdw3cc2.rom
>
> The patch against the Toolshed repo:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>> 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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