[Coco] B&B XTROM

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Brian Goers wrote:


>> I was under the impression that there's a group (Glenside?) who has 

>> distribution rights to Burke & Burke software. I wonder if that includes 

>> the various versions of the B&B XT-ROM EPROM?



> I may be wrong but I thought the ROM had the hard drive parameters. But 

> it's been a long time since I had a B&B system. I will ask Tony Podraza 

> if he has the information. We (Glenside) do have the distribution rights 

> to the G&B software. I'll let everyone know as soon as I can.


To my knowledge, the ROM contains nothing specific to the drive.  It 
"dumbly" attempts to read the track that contains the OS-9 bootloader, 
looking for it at the same offset as it would occupy on a floppy (Track 
19?).  Any unit-specific information is patched into the OS.



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