[Coco] CoCo 3 Projector 3 Blues: The program only gives errorsto drive numbers higher than 1 (reposted because ofpossible size violation of previous message)

RJLCyberPunk cyberpunk at prtc.net
Sat Jan 16 00:53:08 EST 2010


Yes it does but what does it have to do with nor being able to read any 
image file that is placed on any drive number higher than 1?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo 3 Projector 3 Blues: The program only gives 
errorsto drive numbers higher than 1 (reposted because ofpossible size 
violation of previous message)


> The Projector-3 programme sets the drives to doublesided in the BOOT.BAS 
> programme:
>
> 0 'PROJECTOR-3 BOOT (DECB 2.1)
> 20 '
> 30 POKE55453,1
> 40 POKE55454,2
> 50 POKE55455,65
> 60 POKE55456,66
> 70 RT=0:SR=20
> 80 POKE55232,RT:POKE55318,SR
> 90 LOADM"P3"
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo 3 Projector 3 Blues: The program only gives 
> errors to drive numbers higher than 1 (reposted because of possible size 
> violation of previous message)
>
>
>> RJLCyberPunk wrote:
>>> For some reason the program always gives an error message when on tries 
>>> to read any drives higher than 0 or 1 all other drive numbers 2 and 3 
>>> return error messages regardless of what disk image might be in it, yes 
>>> I'm running it on VCC.
>>>
>>
>> No problems at this end. What DOS is running in VCC? It is possible that 
>> RGBDOS may have altered values for the drive table and have
>> 01 02 41 42 instead of 01 02 04 40. Look for these values in 
>> harddisk.dll.
>>
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