[Coco] 6309 Micro Processor Project 11-22-2003

[John Collyer]

BUGS!

[1] The virtual floppy message effectively moves the FD write protect
    "SHIFT" highlighting up two lines, messing up the display.

[2] The only way I could modify the VHD selections was by mouse-click
    on the desired drive field.  This is awkward and undocumented.
    I would like to have a keyboard selection capability as well.

Suggestions:
* limit file display to .DSK and .VHD files, or only allow selection of
  files with these extensions.  presently, you can select any file but
  when you select a drive number, the extension is assumed and if the
  (modified) filename doesn't match, you are prompted to create it.

* a way to exit the [F2] menu with no changes in case you really mess
  things up.  (I've wished for something like that a few times)

On the good side, I did *not* need to reset the emulator to activate
the changed VHD selection!  OS9 seemed to be able to talk to it with
no problem - of course this was /H1, but I would assume that switching
/H0 would just require resetting the PWD and PWX directories, same as
you must do when switching floppy images on the active drive.
(of course this assumes each VHD has a different ID field so OS9 can
detect the drive "change".  If they are the same, you're hosed!)

Anyway, good job so far!
"Just a few more marathon 30-hour debugging sessions and we ship it!"

Rodney

Yes Rodney, there are bugs. I fixed number [1] easily.  To fix number [2]
I had to change the Menu and I hope that's acceptable because it
would almost be impossible to do (if not!)

-----------------------------------------
 Virtual Hard Disk Drives
-----------------------------------------
 Drive  Diskname
   4    \COCO3\VHD\COCO3.VHD
   5    \COCO3\VHD\COCOE.VHD

The suggestion about the file display is a concern, but I'll need more time.
As for, a way to exit the [F2] menu with no changes.  Just press Escape
until you exit the menu or the mistake is gone.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Collyer" <johncollyer at zoominternet.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 3:54 PM
Subject: [Coco] 6309 Micro Processor Project 11-22-2003


> 6309 Micro Processor Project:
>
> Hello,
>
> There has been some significant changes!
>
> The biggest change is:
>
> [F2] The virtual disk menu.  See Section 4 of (Read me version 6) for
> details on using
>  CoCo disks with the emulator.  I will describe only the new details here.
>
> * Now there is support that will allow you to switch virtual hard disk
(/H0
> and H1) on the fly.  To accommodate this new support it was necessary to
> enable the [F2] menu to search for all files, so you could see your vhd
> files.  I would recommend that you make two subdirectories (dsk and vhd)
and
> put all your dsk and vhd files in there.  This will cut down on trying to
> see them through all the other files in the main coco3 directory.  You can
> not write protect the vhd files. If you want to switch between vhd files
do
> this (Go to the [F2] menu and select your vhd files, then press [Esc], and
> press [Ctrl+[F10] to reset.  Now continue as before.)
>
> Make sure you get the help file and download ver19.zip.  Look at the help
> web page for details if you can't read the Windows help file.
>
> http://users.zoominternet.net/~johncollyer/m6309.htm
>
> Everyone have a good Turkey Day.
>
> John Collyer
>
>
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