[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Wed Dec 5 19:47:10 EST 2012
Brian Blake wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 4:43 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>
>> Luis Antoniosi has demonstrated one approach which can handle Drivewire plus
>> one type of HDBDOS; one ROM loaded to RAM, the second the current ROM. Extend
>> it to a 16K ROM with the main package in the first half and hardware specific
>> routines in the second half, and there just might be room to support all
>> flavors of drives.
>>
>> Aside from the difficulties and work needed to attempt this, the requirement
>> of a 16K ROM may make the concept Coco3 only. That would not be desirable.
>
> I'd fully agree that you'd want to support all CoCo models - however, WHY would
> the move to a 16k ROM be CoCo3 only? Roger claimed CoCoNet would work an any
> CoCo and I believe it's on a 16k ROM. I've only used it on a CoCo 3 so I don't
> know.
>
> Not trying to be difficult, just want to understand...
>
Looks like I'm wrong on this but I did say may. :)
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