[Coco] ML Disk I/O examples?

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Fri Apr 13 08:45:39 EDT 2007


Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone please point me to some "nice" examples of assembler disk I/O?
> I simply need to open a series of (binary) files and read then into memory.
> Target is Coco 3.
> 
> The only examples I've seen are from the "Portal-9 Source Pack" and 
> there's scarcely a comment in the entire collection of listings! 
> Pac-dude is using DSKCON and it makes my head hurt.
> 
> Surely there's _commented_ examples around that use disk basic ROM 
> routines to open and read files??? Or is it really that painful on the 
> Coco?
> 
> TIA
> Regards,
> 

The best examples with line by line comments will be found in the 
Unravelled series. A search of the Web will find several sites.
http://www.coco3.com/unravalled/disk-basic-unravelled.pdf




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