[Coco] Hello Aaron help dragon

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Tue May 17 12:27:53 EDT 2011


On 5/17/11, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have partially commented disassembilies of both the official
> DragonDos, and the aftermarket SuperDos, that can be assembled using
> mamou, and will produce identical binaries to those that they where
> disassembled from.
>
> These would be a good starting point for conversion, I did once have a
> go at hacking DW2 to run in this environment, though using an FTDI
> module to do serial over USB, this worked reasonably well, so it should
> be able to be done. The CoCo 1/2 serial code should run without
> modification asuming that it doesn't make any calls to the CoCo rom, and
> that it initialises the PIA lines correctly.
>


I too have a disassembly of SuperDOS which was used to build a version
that would work with a CoCo disk controller.  Unlike Disk Basic, the
Dragon Dos uses nearly all of the 8K ROM, so you would need to go to
16K in order to support both server and real floppy disks like
HDB-DOS.

Darren



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