[Coco] [SPAM] Re: SideKick for CocoSDC

Mon Apr 27 11:17:21 EDT 2015

I asked for the SDC-DOS sources, so I can get the entry points for the
routines but I got no response.

BTW, sidekick has any source open?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM, CoCo Demus <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No Steve,
>
> I'm not talking about reading sectors inside a disk which is fully
> supported by the BIOS. I'm talking about the extra features like listing
> all disk images "DIR -" inside the SD card, mounting and umounting an
> images. Those things are not standard but specific to the CPLD you have in
> the CoCo SDC.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Steve Batson <
> steve at batsonphotography.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree!
> >
> > The manual describes being fully compatible with the CoCo Disk Controller
> > so from that side it seems like standard programming to access the disk
> > images would work. Of course the Disk Basic has been extended so that's
> > obviously where they magic is located. Hopefully, you can get the info to
> > access at the level you need and not need to reverse engineer it. :)
> >
> > But yes, a Sidekick for the CoCoSDC would be awesome!
> >
> >
> > On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > PLEASE DO!!
> > > Sidekick to the CoCoSDC will be a bless!! It's a pain to move through
> > > drives using the command line...
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > > 2015-04-27 11:43 GMT-03:00 CoCo Demus <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >> Hey,
> > >>
> > >> Some people have asked me to make a sidekick for CocoSDC. But when
> > looking
> > >> to the http://cocosdc.blogspot.ca/ I couldn't find any documentation
> > about
> > >> the SDC api. How to direct access to the CPLD? How to get the image
> file
> > >> names, mount a disk, change directories, etc...
> > >>
> > >> If I ever want to make one, do I have to disassemble the current code
> ?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Felipe.
> > >>
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