[Coco] HDBDOS (IDE) & MESS (Coco2)

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

See this is why I use REAL hardware :)

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 11:31 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>
>> You should use either VCC (with superIDE)
>
>
> I can't find the menu that is supposed to be enabled via ide.dll.
>
> Using my HDBDOS rom image in the FD502 emulation doesn't work either
> (guessing that's not supposed to work either).
>
> Why is it so hard to get a hard drive running under emulation? All these
> emulator patches (aside from the HDBDOS virtual floppy offset of course)
> really shouldn't be necessary; technically they're just hacks and do nothing
> but cloud the issue. The CF images really should have a proper ATA header so
> that IDE support can be added to the emulators. We need to look at IDE
> support on other systems and borrow the format from them. The current
> situation is untenable. What a mess! :(
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> |              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
> |  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less resistance!"
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco



-- 
Long live the CoCo