[Coco] f83 for the 6809 -- It'a Alive!

[Darren A]

On 10/17/08, tim lindner wrote:

> Chuck Youse wrote:
>
>> I am not an expert on the Disk BASIC side of things, but I believe you
>> are correct; the only "documented" entry point is DSKCON, which does not
>> deal with FCBs.  You're probably best off just using DSKCON and writing
>> your own filesystem routines, either compatible with Disk Basic's format
>> or not!
>
> That's good advice, but with DSKCON comes a large portion of BASIC and
> it's overhead. Whenever I imagine I'm in a position like Brett, I'm
> always ripping DSKCON from the ROM and make it independant.
>

That's a good way to make DriveWire users unhappy  :-)

In addition, when Chuck's new floppy controller is available, software
not running under NitrOS9 will need to call DSKCON in order to be
compatible.

Darren