[Coco] CoCo and Rasberry Pi ( and Software Rant )

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

>
> Actually... I wrote some articles "back in the day" about how I was
> effectively partitioning a SCSI hard drive with RGB-DOS so I could use it
> all. RGB-DOS (HDB-DOS, etc.) starts at a sector offset in ROM, and then
> goes from there. You could make it skip past the first part of the drive
> for OS-9 to live there (sorta a partition), but I had routines that would
> bank the drives in and out to see other sections. It could not see more
> than 255 drives at a time, but I could get to way more than 255 disk
> images. It was really neat.
>
> Some programs like CoCoMax  won't run from a "partition" different from
the first. Because they will reset the ALLRAM state of the machine it will
copy back the original offset from ROM.