[Coco] CoCo Demus

CoCo Demus retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Sun May 17 16:16:34 EDT 2020


it should work in any HDBDOS device as this address is used as offset.

Just look at the source code of the ROM

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:11 PM Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> If I remember correctly, Luis's image and rom are for the SuperIDE
> emulator in VCC. This is for LBA mode IDE and most likely 512 bytes per
> sector theoretically, it should work in an IDE drive as well). The offset
> in that rom is correct. The boot drive (probably Drive255) is most likely
> for the IDE, so unbootable on anything (the ROM as well), but could be a
> slave drive to copy the data to another drive.
> I have worked with this disk set in VCC and it works, but I think
> something may have broken in the SuperIDE emulator. I haven't checked in a
> while now, but it worked back with Arron's "patched" VCC for the becker
> port.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tonym <tonym at compusource.net>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Sat, May 16, 2020 3:46 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Demus
>
> When I load up the HDBDOS ROM Luis provides, and peek the values, I get
> &H052DDC for the offset.
>
> ROM is at https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/mess-superide
>
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Ed Orbea" <ed.orbea at gmail.com>
> Sent: 5/15/2020 10:26:20 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Demus
>
> Robert:
>
> Using an hex editor, I see the 1st 3 bytes are 07 95 00
>
> I understand the the OS9 partition is 1st, followed by the DOS partition
>
> When I POKE &HD938, &H07
>
> POKE &HD939, &H95
>
> POKE &HD93A, &H00
>
> and then attempt to read the virtual disks (0 to 255) each one displays
> as empty, BUT when I look at the same area using a hex editor, I see
> data (not just $FF)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ed
>
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