[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 14 06:34:53 EST 2014


Excellent idea. One thing I'm thinking is having both IDE and DW (38400 and
57600) in the same ROM, switchable in a per drive basis.
Em 14/02/2014 03:11, "William Astle" <lost at l-w.ca> escreveu:

> Actually you can hook the printer output using one of the ram hooks so it
> should be easy even without having the roms copied to ram. The console out
> hook is the relevant one I believe. Disk basic already hooks it so you
> should be able to modify that routine.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> Date: 02-13-2014  9:51 PM  (GMT-07:00)
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS
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>
> Good work Juan, sounds like you're having fun.
> How about adding some DW4 commands?
> Redirect PRINT#-2 to the DW4 file printer. It shouldn't be a hard command
> to patch into and the DW4 routines to pass the data are already present in
> the hdbdosdw versions. It might be tricky (or improbable) on a Coco 1 or 2
> as you may have to move rom to ram, but on a Coco 3 this is already done
> and patching the CB & ECB roms is easy.
>
>
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
> To: Lista CoCo <coco3 at googlegroups.com>; CoCo List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 10:53 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS
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>
> Now the WIDTH command works and drops you in the PMODE 4 screen if the
> argument is 51 or 64. WIDTH 32 takes you back to text mode. Also, all
> CoCo 3 tokens are recognized. But, of course, all but WIDTH will give
> you an error.
>
> Next up: LOCATE. Then... BUTTON? ERR/ERNO/ERLIN?
>
> ROMs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
> Source patch:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
>
> Juan
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