[Coco] special ramdisk needed...
Allen Huffman
alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Feb 13 13:39:57 EST 2005
On Feb 13, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Robert Emery wrote:
> Would it be possible to have a RamDisk that would supercede floppy
> drive 0, as
> opposed to any higher drive number?
Indeed, this is a similar issue faced by RGB-DOS (HDB-DOS, from
Cloud-9). Some software wouldn't let you enter a drive number beyond
0-3, so RGB-DOS allowed you to swap out the floppies so HD virtual
floppys became 0, 1, 2 and 3. A RAM disk could do the same thing, but
so much software talked to the WD1773 controller directly, bypassing
Disk Extended Basic ROM calls, that those programs can't be made to
work without rewriting them.
-- Allen
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