[Coco] Remembering my RS-DOS days...

[Allen Huffman]

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
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> Allen Huffman wrote:
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>> I did not remember that BACKUP erases the BASIC program in memory ....
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> That's true if you are using the stock Disk Basic. RGBDOS and HDBDOS do not erase the program in memory when using the BACKUP command.

Ah! I did not know (or remember) that. The last years I spent with the CoCo were RGB-DOS and then HDB-DOS. It's been a long time since I used a CoCo without a hard drive :)

By the way, Robert -- I ran across a QUEST.BAS program on a disk image and ran it and it was a game by my buddy Joel Hegberg. It was like the Atari 2600 Adventure. I wrote him and he sent me a link to the Rainbow magazine (December 1989 maybe?) it was printed in. As I went through the pages, in the Letters to the Editor was one from James Jones, who I worked with at Microware (and didn't even know yet in 1989) and elsewhere was a letter from YOU! All these names I know now! Cool.

I wonder how compatible a version of HDB-DOS would be that used the CoCoSDC type extensions rather than SCSI/IDE/DriveWire. Rather than do drives 0-255, it could just do SDC drives like SDC-DOS, but have all the other enhancements. Best of both worlds?

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