[Coco] Determining OS-9 Floppy Type

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Mon May 28 05:15:11 EDT 2007


Bob Devries wrote:
> Here's a very quick and dirty BASIC programme which should determine and 
> display some basic(!) information about your OS9 disk.
> 
> 10 CLEAR 1000
> 20 CLS
> 30 PRINT"OS9 DISK IDENTIFICATION UTILITY"
> 40 PRINT"BY BOB DEVRIES"
> 50 PRINT:INPUT"WHICH DRIVE";DN
> 60 IF DN<0 OR DN>3 THEN PRINT"ERROR... TRY AGAIN":GOTO50
> 70 ON ERR GOTO 200
> 80 DSKI$DN,0,1,A$,B$

Replacing line 80 with :

80 SREAD DN,0,1,A$,B$

Should make this also work on Dragon Dos compatible systems.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.



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