[Coco] ANN: YA-DOS Beta

[Brett Gordon]

And Version 0.2b has been released (same link)

https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos

Bill Pierce thought I should add support for MESS,JV, and VCC's
"EmuDsk" virtual harddrive.  So I did.  It is now Driver No. 5


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Yet Another DOS" has been released BETA.  I need help in testing
> features and hardware.
> here is excerpt from the README.TXT:
>
>
> YA-DOS is a branch of HDBDOS for the CoCo2 and CoCo3.  Original
> HDBDOS is a 8K ROM.  YA-DOS is a 16K ROM.  Although based internally
> on the HDBDOS code, much of the functionality has been changed and
> appended to.  The drivers have been fully modularized and a new
> device/drive switcher has been added to allow the simultaneous use of
> many different devices and or drivers.  Where HDBDOS only allowed
> relatively static setup of a single device plus a stock FDC at a time,
> YA-DOS allows for the the dynamic setup of devices. To this end,
> YA-DOS supports the use of a Multi Pak Interface (MPI) inherently,
> and other than initial setup, little is required to use devices on
> different MPI slots.
>
> Another great feature of YA-DOS is the support of a Drive Partition
> Table.  Drive partition tables have been used to great advantage in
> many other systems, and until now have been unsupported by the Color
> Computer's main operating systems, BASIC, OS-9, and Nitros9.
> Partition tables not only allow cross-OS cooperation of the use of
> large media, they also provide for larger use of the media, and take
> the burden of setup off the user.  Where as HDBDOS was generally
> restricted to a single, ROM based drive offset, YA-DOS supports
> on-the-fly setting and multiple partitions in use (14 per device, 4 in
> simultaneous use).  Removable media of different sorts (SD,CF,DW)
> becomes much easier to use as the media itself contains it's own
> partition table.
>
> YA-DOS also provides for better integration of BASIC and Drive Wire4's
> (DW) and CoCoSDC (SDC) user interface.  New BASIC commands have been
> added to allow for control of disk images.  The insertion and mounting
> of disk images in DW and SDC can now be fully automated with YA-DOS
> at boot.  DriveWire's advanced controls over server logs, MIDI
> channels, is now at least partially supported.
>
>
> Get it here:    https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos
> (includes dsk image, SDCDOS rom burner app, ROM image, Docs, and a
> "FDISK"-like partitioning program)
>
> email if you have questions, comments, suggestions, flames....
>
> --
> Brett M. Gordon,
> beretta42 at gmail.com



-- 
Brett M. Gordon,
beretta42 at gmail.com