[Coco] RS-DOS COPY crashing system
Arthur Flexser
flexser at fiu.edu
Sun Jan 11 13:20:29 EST 2015
I gathered that Alan was using RGB-DOS when the bug hit him, which may
indicate that the fix was done in HDBDOS.
Art
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
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