[Coco] starting HDBDOS with the 'DOS' command

[David Ladd]

That is for sure interesting. :D
Do you have any example code of the loader you have put into track 34 that
you might be willing to share?

Always cool to see these nifty things :D

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On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 11:51 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I use HDB-DOS and a Disto HARDDRIVE controller to run my HD setup
>
>
> I dont have an EPROM with HDB-DOS on it for my controller, so I have been
> loading HDB-DOS from floppy and launching it .
>
>
> I type
>
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> LOADM "HDBDOS.BIN"  <ENTER>
>
> EXEC                                   <ENTER>
>
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> This works fine but I thought it would be slicker to just be able to type
>
>
> DOS  <ENTER>
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> SInce typing 'DOS' tells the computer to read track 34 of disk 0 ; I just
> added the ' LOADM "HDBDOS.BIN":EXEC' to that track of the floppy disk.  Now
> when I type 'DOS' the computer reads track 34 and launches HDBDOS.
>
>
> This does not really save much time but does look a bit slicker
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