[Coco] Keil under VMWARE or better suggestion

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at ramoth.org.uk
Tue Mar 11 09:09:47 EDT 2014


On 11/03/2014 12:15, Ciaran Anscomb wrote:
> Mark McDougall wrote:
>> On 11/03/2014 12:12 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> That's because that image is 40 track double-sided.  Without any header
> information, XRoar can't tell the difference between that and an 80
> track single-sided disk.
>
> Try running XRoar with the "-disk-jvc-hack" option to force the issue,
> or insert two bytes at the beginning of the image file: 0x12 0x02.

Since IIRC a NitrOS9 / OS9 disk has a standard LSN0 that defines the 
geometry, would it not be possible to have XRoar try examining this if 
it doesn't find a disk header ? I believe that Mess does if you rename 
the disk from whatever.dsk to whatever.os9

Cheers.

Phill.





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