[Coco] CF Image for Dragon32/64/Tano

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 August 2013 22:03:11 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Then at what offsets are each OS9 partition accessed at. I know how to
> do this with hdbdos, but not quite sure how you would implement this in
> OS9. And how about drive descriptor settings?
> 
The superdriver has now been put back into Nitros9, so the latest hg pull 
should have it.  Read the super-descriptor docs as it gets rather 
convoluted, a flag bit in one byte switches the meaning of 3 of the bytes 
in the descriptor so that they turn into the address of the partition this 
descriptor addresses.  Rather ingenious and it works.  My trying to explain 
it from memory will likely screw it up so I won't try.  You could also 
download the superdriver manual and print it yourself from Marks site at 
cloud9.  Read carefully, there are a couple of places where its too concise 
IMO.

> Bill Pierce
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Sent: Thu, Aug 22, 2013 7:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CF Image for Dragon32/64/Tano
> 
> 
> no i created multiple partitions to make room for several os-9 flavours
> like level1, level1 lowercase, level2, level2 6309 and even os-9 2.0
> (phoenix) version.
> 
> On 2013-08-22, at 5:48 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 22 August 2013 17:41:58 Bill Pierce did opine:
> > Luis,
> > You said your imagscan be read as VHDs, if so, what's the offst to the
> > rsdos partition? I can read the OS9 fine
> 
> That, generally, starts at the next sector after the end of the os9
> partition, so if DD.DSK in LSN0 is the first 3 bytes, and for os9 it is,
> then add one to that to set your offset in HDB-DOS, that will be the
> start of vdisk0. 630 sectors.  Then vdisk1 starts at DD.DSK + 1 + 630,
> etc etc until you have the 256 virtual drives, if the media is big
> enough.
> 
> > Bill Pierce
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Thu, Aug 22, 2013 5:12 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] CF Image for Dragon32/64/Tano
> > 
> > 
> > ? Explosive ?
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Richard E. Crislip
> 
> <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>wrote:
> >> On 08/20/2013 12:42 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> >>> As promised the exclusive CF image for Dragon/Tanos:
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.mediafire.com/?**40jau3q4zaewk8o<http://www.mediafire.com
> >>> / ?40jau3q4zaewk8o>
> >>> 
> >>> There is a lot of coco2/3 stuff on it, but from 100 - 131 we have
> >>> dragon dos disks converted to rs-dos. So you can play moon cresta,
> >>> back track, chuckie egg direct from SuperIDE.
> >>> 
> >>> Also two OS-9 flavours: OS-9 2.0 phoenix (for old games) and
> >>> nitrOS-9 2.3.9
> >>> selectable from boot.
> >>> 
> >>> SideKick was ported to Dragon.
> >>> 
> >>> Enjoy
> >>> 
> >>> 8-), having not read the post close enough, I was so disappointed
> >>> when I
> >> 
> >> opened what I thought was an "explosive CF image" and nothing
> >> ahppened 8-).
> >> 
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> Cheers, Gene


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