[Coco] VCC and HDBDOS

[Robert Gault]

Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
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>   Barry, HDBDOS does not use emudsk at all. There is no support in hdbdos for emudsk. Hdbdos only supports real HDs, DriveWire, and the Becker Port.
> What you are looking for is Robert Gault's "RGBDOS" which supports the emudsk drives in Mess and Vcc. I think he has a version on his website (not sure), and if not, I'm pretty sure it's in the Color Computer Archives.
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Emudsk is an OS-9 module created by Alan DeKok for OS-9/NitrOS-9 on emulated 
systems providing access to emulated hard drives. You can find the source code 
in the NitrOS-9 project under 3rdparty/drivers/emudsk.

Regarding Disc Basic, HDBDOS is derived from RGBDOS for real hard drive systems. 
Cloud-9 bought the rights to the software. Long before that, I had customized my 
KenTon RGBDOS hard drive system and created a version of RGBDOS for emulators. 
That version probably helped Cloud-9 create their HDBDOS.
There are some versions of RGBDOS in the Archive and on my web site.
http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/ROMs/

http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/CoCo_main.htm
  then
http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/Downloads/Downloads.htm

RGBDOS was also part of VCC, with my permission, but Joseph has now removed it 
and a ROM image is required.

RGBDOS also works with the JVC Coco3 emulator.

Robert