[Coco] f83 for the CoCo, Update and a laundry-list of questions.

[Brett Heath]

On 11/9/08, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/9/08, Brett Heath wrote:
>
>>>
>>> RSDOS does not provide any facility to detect if the user has changed
>>> diskettes in a drive. It very much relies on the user to do the
>>> correct thing by not changing disks while any files are open. There is
>>> an UNLOAD command in Disk Basic which is supposed to be used before
>>> switching disks to ensure that the current disk is updated if
>>> necessary.
>>>
>>> Darren
>>
>> Damn, I was afraid of that.
>>
>> Maybe I can get it directly from the controller chip, needs looking into.
>>
>
> Don't bother. The Disk Change signal is not connected to anything on
> CoCo controllers.

Yeah, it figures.

Oh well, have to try something else, thanks for the help.

Brett K. Heath