[Coco] OS-9 DS floppy config - SUCCESS!
Willard Goosey
goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Aug 9 00:45:11 EDT 2010
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:47:15AM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> for anyone who is interested, I found the original patch file to modify
> CCDISK from the Level 1 V2.0.0 distribution to read/write/format
> double-sided disks. It was featured in The Rainbow October 1988, pp 156. I
> don't have that issue now, so I can't say who wrote it (unless I download
> it from maltedmedia)
Steve Goldberg wrote it. Also a patch to format dd disks under LI in
the same issue:
*Patches the format utility to
* permit formatting single sided
* disks on double sided drives and
* provides for a choice of number
* of track. Use * (asterick) as an
* option for single sided formatting
* Use number of tracks in pareneses
* as option to change track count.
t
load format
debug
lformat
. .+1a3
=49
. .+4
=2a
=01
. .+1
=0f
lformat
. .+a85
=a0
=8c
=39
q
del -x format
save /d0/cmds/format format
unlink format
-t
Willard
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