[Coco] B&B XTROM

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>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.

Not quite correct, it looked, not on track 34 like a floppy, but on track 128 
or 129, supposedly keyboard selectable at boot time.  Unforch the rest of the 
docs weren't, and I was never able to actually make it work for me when I had 
one. So mine always was a floppy boot.



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