[Coco] RS-DOS COPY crashing system

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 09:25:05 EST 2015


FYI:  I believe HDBDOS already has this bug fixed, albeit in a
slightly different manner than recommended.  I'm not sure where this
fix came in at, whether is be a relic from RGB-DOS or Boisy plopped it
in there.  Can't tell from source or version control.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> Yes, ADOS was built around Disk Basic 1.0, mostly on account of there being
> more free space available in that version.  The patch might well work in
> RGBDOS as well, if that is also based on Disk Basic 1.0 or 1.1.
>
> (In case it is not obvious, there should be a second ORG in the patch,
> putting FIXIT someplace where there is free space.)
>
> Art
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Cool, Art. Sixxie was in the IRC chat and just came across those comments
>> while trying to trace through the crash after he replicated it.
>>
>> > On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:58 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > (addresses are for the 1.0 Disk Basic version; use the Unravelled book to
>> > get the corresponding 1.1 addresses)
>>
>> Was ADOS based on Disk Basic 1.0? Was it a patch to existing DECB?
>>
>> I always stayed away from J&M DOS and a few others that were out there due
>> to fears of incompatibility, but I always wanted ADOS. By the time I got
>> around to where I could get a ROM burned, I was putting RGB-DOS in there.
>>
>>                 -- A
>>
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