[Coco] Hello Aaron help dragon

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Tue May 17 12:45:02 EDT 2011


On 17/05/2011 17:27, Darren A wrote:
> On 5/17/11, Phill Harvey-Smith<afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk>  wrote:
>
> 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.

Unless you disassembled that by hand I rather suspect that has a common 
anscestor with my copy :) :) :)

Moding a DragonDos controler to do that is dead simple, IIRC, just one 
board cut and a wire from the extra address line on the edge connector 
to the ROM pin.

Cheers.

Phill.




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