[Coco] OCN?

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 21:44:54 EDT 2013


just make a basic program at drive 0 of each 256 disks set, pokeing the
offset and call EXEC at the end to return to sidekick

i do this.

but this wont work with games that makes allram and then load second files
as the allram would scrap the offset.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Willard,
> Jamtronics was a website someone had up (I guess as there's html pages in
> the archive). It the useual collection of Coco software but there were a
> few things there that are not in the other archives. The zip for jamtronics
> is on maltedmedia somewhere.
> It also has some apple and ti99 software in the archive.
>
> The problem is going to be all the RSDOS files. I can make an OS9 VHD as
> large as I want. The RSDOS partition is (max) 255 disks at 35trk singe
> side. It doesn't take long to fill these up. I do have a custom VHD I was
> tinkering with that has multiple RSDOS partitions and I modified the RGBDOS
> to select different partitions. It uses a poke cmd to poke new offsets into
> RGBDOS/HDBDOS when a new drive is selected. The menu has to be on disk0 of
> each drive as an AUTOEXEC file so that when it switches drives, the menu
> runs again. It's complicated to set it up, but once it's running, it's a
> breeze to run. If this could be combined with Luis's SideKick program, you
> could bounce from drive to drive and view any disk. I might explore this
> system further as I'm getting ready to start a major project in RSDOS
> anyway after the Coco Coding contest is over.
>
> Bill P
>
> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Mar 17, 2013 6:11 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OCN?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:58:56PM -0400, Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> > I should be getting those VHDs up soon. I think I have about 2 or 3 more
> archives I need to go through. So far, I've done:
>
> Cool.
>
> > I'm still working on OS9UG, Princeton RSDOS, the CIS files and the
> Jamtronix
> collection.
>
> I've never heard of Jamtronix, either.  Anything interesting there?
>
> Willard
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