[Coco] Hacking the SuperIDE

[Bill Pierce]

:-) Mr. Gault,
Where do you think I got my info? The offsets used in HDBDOS/RGBDOS were genius. I was just experimenting a while back with the info from the white paper and created a system that manages 9x256 drives under HDBDOS. Each VHD is dedicated to something different, games, music, programming, utilities, ect. It uses a highly modified version of the "blue" startup program from RGBDOS. It's lists the drives and the "theme" for each drives and gives the option to select which drive you want. After selecting the drive, the menu reappears. Then you just exit to basic to be on that drive. Anytime you want to switch again, just run"autoexec:0" or reboot. To use this with RGBDOS and VCC the ROM would have to be modified to offset 000000 as it has to be able to read the drive0 to set up the system and no OS-9 drives are used. I wouldn't be much trouble to modify the program to read past an OS9 drive as well. It would just make the VHD even larger (372,096 already).

Bill P

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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 8:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hacking the SuperIDE


Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> (kind of related) I actually wrote a basic program in basic to manage a HUGE 
VHD in HDBDOS under Drivewire to Switch partitions and be able to copy and swap 
files from one partition to the other using the HDBDOS offset pokes. It's a pain 
to set up but works. There's a modified "autoexec" file on d0 of each partition 
to allow use of the others.
>
> Bill P
>

It's great to see all this activity, but I'd like to advise people to read, for 
example, the White Papers on the Cloud-9 site before starting projects. You may 
be reinventing the wheel.

Consider the paper at http://www.cloud9tech.com/ under Support and Tech Notes 
and White Papers. The article "Using Large Drives with HDBDOS" covers the root 
of this thread.


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