[Coco] HDBDOS (IDE) & MESS (Coco2)

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Wed Mar 12 08:51:16 EDT 2014


On 12/03/2014 11:31 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:

> MESS has no IDE support. You should use either VCC (with superIDE) or
> RGB-DOS on MESS. RGB-DOS uses 256-byte sectors and it's not compatible
> with IDE images.

Ah, that explains why RGBMESS.ROM (which I just found on Robert Gault's 
page) recognises a drive but not my image! :(

> I did a patch to support IDE on MESS but you will need to recompile it:
> https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/mess-superide

Thanks, I'll check it out. I always compile my own MAME/MESS anyway...

Regards,

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