[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

[Juan Castro]

For now it's DRIVE LINE 1, as it was before. And yeah, with the
Unraveled books it appears everybody and their dog did their own DECB.
The Hands-On Imperative* in action!

* "Hackers", book by Steven Levy. DO read it.

Juan

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Juan!
> A very interesting add-on to the DRIVE command.  What is the default mode?
> Would it be DRIVE LINE 0?
> I wonder how many DRIVE syntax add-ons and changes have been made over the
> years since Disk Basic was first released by Tandy.
> Do you know if anyone has ever documented all the different Disk Basic rom
> images created by everyone in the Coco Community over the years?  I have a
> number of different Disk Basic roms myself so I for one would find the
> article quite interesting.  Take care my friend.
> Kip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Juan Castro
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 10:28 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts; Lista CoCo
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS
>
> No new functionality but a neat tweak. I added syntax to the DRIVE command
> to select the I/O method (or "line"):
>
> DRIVE LINE 0 <- 38kbps DW
> DRIVE LINE 1 <- 57kbps DW
> DRIVE LINE 2 <- Becker port
>
> Also, I decided to give this concoction a reasonable-sounding name:
> R+DOS-16. The 16 should be self-explanatory. R+ is the name of the
> blog me and a bunch of others edit -- Retrocomputaria Plus.
>
> The ROM:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16k-hdbdw3cc2.rom
>
> The patch against the Toolshed repo:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hi Juan!
>> Selecting IDE for everything, or selecting Drivewire for everything,
>> or selecting an SD card for everything in the beginning sounds like a
>> great starting point.  Think about being able to use to copy or backup
>> command between drives in different slots in the MPI as well.  That is
>> a dream of mine in both HDB-DOS and NitrOS-9 as well.  The software
>> just needs to be modified to do it.  In any event, I like that as a
>> beginning towards the per selection idea.  Consider me a beta tester
>> if you like.  I can erase and reburn my 27128 eprom all day long.  :)
>> I can hardly wait to see your next version.  In the past I have not
>> been much of a gamer, but I will make an exception and test out your
>> button command.  I assume it has to be a basic game using the joystick
>> so can you recommend one for me to try?  Thank you again for a
>> fantastic upgrade to HDB-DOS.  ;D Kip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
>> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Juan Castro
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:20 AM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Juan!
>>> I just tried WIDTH 51 and WIDTH 64!  They are great!  I love it!  Now
>>> I can see better when I list Basic programs on my Coco 1.  This will
>>> definitely become my new Coco 1 HDB-DOS Drivewire Eprom image.  I
>>> have it running in a Glenside IDE controller.  When will the triple
>>> driver version as in IDE, Hard drive, Drivewire for the 16KB
>>> HDBDW3CC2 eprom
>> image be released?
>>
>> I will have to do some very non-trivial coding in order to implement
>> my idea of per-drive method selection. I intend to begin with
>> something easier -- you select IDE for everything and it behaves just
>> like normal IDE HDB-DOS for all drives, then you select DriveWire and
>> it's DriveWire for everybody etc.
>>
>> What I lack to make it progress faster isn't time or resources -- it's
>> stamina. Gaaaaa.
>>
>> (Although having a very satisfied user is surely stimulating!)
>>
>>> I remember you mentioned something about that but I don't remember
>>> exactly what you said.  By the way, what version number HDB-DOS was
>>> this based on and will you be upgrading each new version of HDB-DOS
>>> as
>> they come out?
>>
>> I'm maintaining it as a patch to the Mercurial repository, i.e. the
>> very very bleeding edge HDB-DOS code, bugs and all.
>>
>>> Thanks for an excellent upgrade to HDB-DOS.
>>
>> Thank you for testing. Hey, did you try the BUTTON() function with a
>> joystick? It should work as the CoCo 3 version, but only for the first
>> button of course.
>>
>> Juan
>>
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