[Coco] CoCoTracker 6809 bug/issue

[Sean]

Just finished testing with the SDC, mounted the CoCoTracker disk to drive
1, did the DRIVE 1 command, and mounted a music disk on drive 0.  When it
loads, it only showed the contents of Drive 0 for every drive you pick.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's probably the most likely culprit then, the drive choosing function
> is incompatible with the Drive Pak and SDC.  I'll try running it from drive
> 1 tonight to confirm.
> I don't have my real floppy drives set up right now to verify this.
> I'll have to give the Orch90 cart a shot too!
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Sean, after further investigation, I've found that CocoTracker actually
>> pokes the drive number into a location in the DECB rom (in a Coco 3 it
>> resides in ram and can be edited)
>> A check is made for DECB 1.1 or 1.0 and the poke is done accordingly.
>> So, if the Drivepak and CocoSDC roms are not compatible with RSDOS in
>> that particular rom location, then a drive change would fail.
>> Both RGBDOS and HDBDOS use the RSDOS rom and only modify it to their
>> needs so they work fine.
>> I have no clue how Drivepak and Cocosdc roms are set up so this could
>> very well be your problem. Not CocoTracker, but the compatibility of the
>> roms in your drive emulators.
>>
>> Given the location of the same value in the drivepak and cocosdc roms,
>> changes could be made in the CocoTracker basic program to make it work with
>> drives other than 0.
>> The reason it works with drive 0 is that it checks the current drive and
>> if it's 0 it does not do the poke.
>> The disk access is done via DSKI$ command for direct loading of the mods
>> so that they can be loaded into the upper banks of the 512k memory one bank
>> at a time.
>>
>>
>> Bill Pierce
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean <badfrog at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 12:00 am
>> Subject: [Coco] CoCoTracker 6809 bug/issue
>>
>>
>> I have discovered a problem with Sock Master's 6809 version of
>> CocoTracker.  (I
>> can't test the 6309 version since I don't have a CoCo with
>> one)
>>
>> I was wondering
>> last year why it wasn't able to load songs that I had on
>> drives 1,2, or 3 with
>> the Drive Pak.  They would never show up.
>> However, playing around today with the
>> CoCo SDC, I was able to determine it
>> never actually looks at those drives, only
>> drive 0.  If I copy a .mod file
>> from drive 1-3 to 0, and then run the program,
>> it shows up.  If you choose
>> any other drive from the in-program menu, it still
>> only shows the file from
>> drive 0.
>>
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