[Coco] ANN: YA-DOS Beta

[David Ladd]

Brett,

I have a slightly crazy request here.  Not sure how hard it would be
though.  With DriveWire 4 it has the virtual printing support so you can
send prints via DriveWire.  Is there a way to have a option to capture the
LINE PRINTER output and redirect it through the DriveWire connection in
YA-DOS? :D

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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And Version 0.2b has been released (same link)
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos
>
> Bill Pierce thought I should add support for MESS,JV, and VCC's
> "EmuDsk" virtual harddrive.  So I did.  It is now Driver No. 5
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "Yet Another DOS" has been released BETA.  I need help in testing
> > features and hardware.
> > here is excerpt from the README.TXT:
> >
> >
> > YA-DOS is a branch of HDBDOS for the CoCo2 and CoCo3.  Original
> > HDBDOS is a 8K ROM.  YA-DOS is a 16K ROM.  Although based internally
> > on the HDBDOS code, much of the functionality has been changed and
> > appended to.  The drivers have been fully modularized and a new
> > device/drive switcher has been added to allow the simultaneous use of
> > many different devices and or drivers.  Where HDBDOS only allowed
> > relatively static setup of a single device plus a stock FDC at a time,
> > YA-DOS allows for the the dynamic setup of devices. To this end,
> > YA-DOS supports the use of a Multi Pak Interface (MPI) inherently,
> > and other than initial setup, little is required to use devices on
> > different MPI slots.
> >
> > Another great feature of YA-DOS is the support of a Drive Partition
> > Table.  Drive partition tables have been used to great advantage in
> > many other systems, and until now have been unsupported by the Color
> > Computer's main operating systems, BASIC, OS-9, and Nitros9.
> > Partition tables not only allow cross-OS cooperation of the use of
> > large media, they also provide for larger use of the media, and take
> > the burden of setup off the user.  Where as HDBDOS was generally
> > restricted to a single, ROM based drive offset, YA-DOS supports
> > on-the-fly setting and multiple partitions in use (14 per device, 4 in
> > simultaneous use).  Removable media of different sorts (SD,CF,DW)
> > becomes much easier to use as the media itself contains it's own
> > partition table.
> >
> > YA-DOS also provides for better integration of BASIC and Drive Wire4's
> > (DW) and CoCoSDC (SDC) user interface.  New BASIC commands have been
> > added to allow for control of disk images.  The insertion and mounting
> > of disk images in DW and SDC can now be fully automated with YA-DOS
> > at boot.  DriveWire's advanced controls over server logs, MIDI
> > channels, is now at least partially supported.
> >
> >
> > Get it here:    https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos
> > (includes dsk image, SDCDOS rom burner app, ROM image, Docs, and a
> > "FDISK"-like partitioning program)
> >
> > email if you have questions, comments, suggestions, flames....
> >
> > --
> > Brett M. Gordon,
> > beretta42 at gmail.com
>
>
>
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