[Coco] starting HDBDOS with the 'DOS' command

[rietveld rietveld]

I just typed this program in. It works well.   I just can't launch the program using my  DISK DIR Menu.   I don't think the file that is created is an executable. BIN

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  Original Message
From: Stephen Fischer
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 5:13 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] starting HDBDOS with the 'DOS' command


Rainbow November 1984 makes it even easier.

Schrag, Roger. "A special use for the DOS command."
(1984, November) 140*

Another quick find using the "Rainbow Text Searchable Index v1.pdf"

SHF


On 5/13/2018 9:51 PM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> I use HDB-DOS and a Disto HARDDRIVE controller to run my HD setup
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> I dont have an EPROM with HDB-DOS on it for my controller, so I have been loading HDB-DOS from floppy and launching it .
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> I type
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> LOADM "HDBDOS.BIN"  <ENTER>
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> EXEC                                   <ENTER>
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> This works fine but I thought it would be slicker to just be able to type
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> DOS  <ENTER>
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> SInce typing 'DOS' tells the computer to read track 34 of disk 0 ; I just added the ' LOADM "HDBDOS.BIN":EXEC' to that track of the floppy disk.  Now when I type 'DOS' the computer reads track 34 and launches HDBDOS.
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> This does not really save much time but does look a bit slicker
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