[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Luis Antoniosi]

My problem is I have very little access to my real hardware.  I make
most of the coding using MESS emulator. On MESS I can only have the
RGBDOS and I know there is a patch for drivewire but I never tested.

Also, I don't have a MPI, SCSI drives and other cool stuff to test :(

Felipe.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/4/2012 1:02 PM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>>> Perhaps the Super HDB-DOS project would be something Luis and others would be interested in working on.
>>
>> There are some very smart people working in this group now...
>>
>>> Some background: this project was discussed back in September in an email discussion between myself, Mark, Aaron, Darren, Robert Gault and William Astle.  Nothing besides discussion ever took place, and no work was done.
>>>
>>> The idea was (and still is) to define a set of commands that would easily allow one to address DriveWire, Floppy, IDE, and SCSI devices in the same ROM, and to do so without making the syntax difficult or strange.  We discussed a number of different proposals to do this.
>>
>> This would be a dream come true - the flexibility I mentioned earlier with the performance of a SuperIDE or TC^3.
>>
>> Had the discussions reach a point where you were talking about device detection - whether Super HDB-DOS would detect the mass storage on the machine? Or would the user have to use a setup program, similar to what we do during the initial setup of a SuperIDE?
>
> The idea would be to include the code to talk to all devices in the same ROM. There would be no need for run-time detection -- only error handling in case a device was accessed that wasn't on the system.
>
> Essentially, it would have eliminated the need for any setup program at all.
>
> But it would have definitely required moving up to a 16K ROM.
>
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