[Coco] [SPAM] Re: SideKick for CocoSDC

[CoCo Demus]

No Steve,

I'm not talking about reading sectors inside a disk which is fully
supported by the BIOS. I'm talking about the extra features like listing
all disk images "DIR -" inside the SD card, mounting and umounting an
images. Those things are not standard but specific to the CPLD you have in
the CoCo SDC.


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Steve Batson <steve at batsonphotography.com>
wrote:

> I agree!
>
> The manual describes being fully compatible with the CoCo Disk Controller
> so from that side it seems like standard programming to access the disk
> images would work. Of course the Disk Basic has been extended so that's
> obviously where they magic is located. Hopefully, you can get the info to
> access at the level you need and not need to reverse engineer it. :)
>
> But yes, a Sidekick for the CoCoSDC would be awesome!
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > PLEASE DO!!
> > Sidekick to the CoCoSDC will be a bless!! It's a pain to move through
> > drives using the command line...
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > 2015-04-27 11:43 GMT-03:00 CoCo Demus <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> Some people have asked me to make a sidekick for CocoSDC. But when
> looking
> >> to the http://cocosdc.blogspot.ca/ I couldn't find any documentation
> about
> >> the SDC api. How to direct access to the CPLD? How to get the image file
> >> names, mount a disk, change directories, etc...
> >>
> >> If I ever want to make one, do I have to disassemble the current code ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Felipe.
> >>
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