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

[Luis Antoniosi]

>From the DISK BASIC, what is the benefit of accessing TC^3, DW,
superIDE and floppy at the same time ? To copy from one to another ?
What else could you do beside this ?


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 4:54 PM, Luis Antoniosi wrote:
>>
>> Just a word here: SuperIDE supports 4 ram banks and can be switched by
>> software.
>>
>> But I don't see many benefit from having multiple device support for
>> disk basic.
>
>
> Not sure I understand what you're trying to say, Luis. The SuperIDE has four
> selectable Flash RAM  banks for loading an OS or ROM image of your choice.
> Are you saying you don't see a benefit to having access to real floppy
> equipment, DriveWire and the SuperIDE all at the same time without having to
> boot to a different OS?
>
>> If there is one thing I would like to work is to give disk
>> emulation on hdbdos, with support for disk switching (talking about a
>> keyboard interrupt maybe ?). For example there are many disk basic
>> games that don't run on superIDE, drivePak, etc.
>
>
> Someone smarter than I am can chime in on this, but, I don't think there's a
> software solution for this. Some programmers wrote their own disk access
> routines instead of using standard RS-DOS routines (ex.: DSKCON). I believe
> that's where most of the problems with some of the multi-disk games are
> problematic.
>
>
> Brian
>
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