[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I got my OS-9 Level 1 disk drivers from SDisk1, is that what you remember?

I think that I have DSK files of all my SDisk original disks and doc's.

SHF


> Hi All,



> for the life of me, I cannot remember where I last saw the disk driver for 

> Level 1, nor can I remember its name.



> Can someone help out here? I have scanned through RTSI, and also the files 

> from the Princeton days (now on maltedmedia), but nothing jumps out at me. 

> :(



> Regards, Bob Devries

> Dalby, QLD, Australia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at gmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?



> On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:09:36 am Bob Devries did opine:

>

>> Hi all,

>>

>> may I be so bold as to point out that Chad H is using Level ONE of OS9?

>>

>> AFAIK, level ONE was HARD CODED for single-sided disks. You needed to

>> replace the floppy driver and descriptors with a modified one

>> (available on RTSI IIRC) to read/write double-sided disks.

>>

>> Regards, Bob Devries

>> Dalby, QLD, Australia

>

> 100% correct.  The original Level 1 version 1.00 also had a different set

> of

> defines in the defsfiles.  I recall getting my disk driver from a

> commercial

> place at the time, possibly ComputerWare, but it would take me the rest of

> the day to find the originals now.

>

> -- 

> Cheers, Gene