[Coco] HDBDOS - RETRIEVE FIXED!!

[Tormod Volden]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:45 AM, David Ladd wrote:
>
> On 1/23/2015 6:23 PM, Tormod Volden wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Chad H wrote:
>>>
>>> I took a look at the makefile for HDBDOS and figured it out enough to add
>>> my own options though.  I added a "coco2" to only build the CoCo 2 ROM's if
>>> I didn't want to use the "all".  What tool would be needed to add in the
>>> option to store the .BIN's into a .DSK image?
>>
>> The "decb" utility from Toolshed can be used to create RSDOS disk
>> images. But wouldn't it be kind of strange to load the DOS from a
>> floppy?
>
>
> Tormod, actually that is how I have been testing HDBDOS and my own patched
> version of standard DECB.  I have a custom preload stripped of the all RAM
> mode and move to ROM code so that way I could do:
> KILL MEM @7
> CLEAR 200,&H4000
> LOADM"NEWDOS.BIN"
> WRITE MEM @7,&H4000,&HC000,8192
> RUN @7

OK, I see. That looks fairly CoCoSDC specific :)

As long as you load it into lower RAM first, and the "handover" to the
new DOS is resetting everything, this works fine of course.

>
> This way I could use the flash chip in the CoCoSDC for doing my testing.