[Coco] Coco SDC Explorer 0.40 is now available!

Guillaume Major guillaume.major at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 13:06:06 EST 2017


Thank you Darren for your explanation!

I will make the correction as soon as I get home.

Guillaume

"Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote in 
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> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Pere Serrat wrote:
>
>> Hi Guillaume,
>> seems very good news this upgrade!
>> But by now, after downloading it, once installed on my card, the screen
>> opens showing only:  EMPTY CARD
>> Of course starting v0.35 shows all of the contents with no problems (?)
>> Is there anything that must be done to use the new 0.40 version?
>> My CoCo-SDC for the Dragon is at firmware version 1.16 as this is the 
>> last
>> one made/published by Darren Atkinson for the Dragons.
>> To go version 1.17 we need to get to a CoCo3 in order to use MAP1, but
>> this implies having a copy of SDC-DOS which is no more installed on our
>> cards for Dragons :-(
>> Any advice to overcome this problem will be very appreciated
>>
>>
>
> I think I know what the problem is.
>
> The new version of Explorer now uses the CommSDC interface routine which I
> provided for communicating with the SDC hardware.  There are two
> instructions in that routine which write to the Controller Latch using an
> indexed address operand of -10,y.  This will only work correctly under the
> CoCo address scheme.  Those instructions should be changed to use the
> absolute address symbol CTRLATCH.
>
>
> - Darren
>
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