[Coco] POKEs and PEEKs in NitrOS-9?

[tim lindner]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> Not in the Disk Basic sense. There are some drivers that keep track of the
> MPI byte at $FF7F, change it as needed, and restore it after the requested
> command is finished.
> Currently the floppy disk driver does not change $FF7F. You could change the
> source code for rb1773 so that it used a byte in the descriptor to indicate
> the required MPI slot. Then rb1773 could handle up to 16 floppies where say
> /d0-/d3 were slot4, /d4-/7 were slot3, etc.
>
> I don't see much point in doing that since few users would have more than
> one disk controller pack in an MPI.

I do think there is utility in updating rbsuper to support MPI slot
selection. Then using a real floppy drive with the CoCoSDC would be
possible under NitOS-9.

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tim lindner