[Coco] HDBDOS (IDE) & MESS (Coco2)

[Mark McDougall]

On 12/03/2014 11:31 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:

> You should use either VCC (with superIDE)

I can't find the menu that is supposed to be enabled via ide.dll.

Using my HDBDOS rom image in the FD502 emulation doesn't work either 
(guessing that's not supposed to work either).

Why is it so hard to get a hard drive running under emulation? All these 
emulator patches (aside from the HDBDOS virtual floppy offset of course) 
really shouldn't be necessary; technically they're just hacks and do nothing 
but cloud the issue. The CF images really should have a proper ATA header so 
that IDE support can be added to the emulators. We need to look at IDE 
support on other systems and borrow the format from them. The current 
situation is untenable. What a mess! :(

Regards,

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