[Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...

Bill Pierce ooogalapasooo at aol.com
Mon Sep 30 12:25:04 EDT 2013


I'm staying out of this one LMAO

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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 12:21 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...




-----Original Message----- 
From: Aaron Wolfe

> I suspect the issue is that HDBDOS and ADOS cannot "coexist"... This is
> probably true of any two DOS roms, and very likely the same issue would
> effect users of HDBDOS for the SuperIDE and other flavors of HDBDOS or the
> RGBDOS it came from.  Likely this applies to every DOS although I am not 
> an
> expert on such things.  Apparently ADOS has had facilities for dealing 
> with
> this situation since long before HDBDOS or DriveWire existed.

Most likely true. Which further backs up the point that this must be 
documented on the Drivewire site.

> I believe the most helpful approach will be to provide documentation that
> explains the role and scope of the DriveWire software clearly, so that
> users will understand the demarcation.  This way hopefully their first
> place common sense will take them to the correct project for support.

It would be less work, more useful, and more effective to have it on the 
Drivewire site in a client troubleshooting section.

Why are you trying to make more work for everybody?

-[ Al ]- 


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