[Coco] ANN: YA-DOS Beta

[Brett Gordon]

"Yet Another DOS" has been released BETA.  I need help in testing
features and hardware.
here is excerpt from the README.TXT:


YA-DOS is a branch of HDBDOS for the CoCo2 and CoCo3.  Original
HDBDOS is a 8K ROM.  YA-DOS is a 16K ROM.  Although based internally
on the HDBDOS code, much of the functionality has been changed and
appended to.  The drivers have been fully modularized and a new
device/drive switcher has been added to allow the simultaneous use of
many different devices and or drivers.  Where HDBDOS only allowed
relatively static setup of a single device plus a stock FDC at a time,
YA-DOS allows for the the dynamic setup of devices. To this end,
YA-DOS supports the use of a Multi Pak Interface (MPI) inherently,
and other than initial setup, little is required to use devices on
different MPI slots.

Another great feature of YA-DOS is the support of a Drive Partition
Table.  Drive partition tables have been used to great advantage in
many other systems, and until now have been unsupported by the Color
Computer's main operating systems, BASIC, OS-9, and Nitros9.
Partition tables not only allow cross-OS cooperation of the use of
large media, they also provide for larger use of the media, and take
the burden of setup off the user.  Where as HDBDOS was generally
restricted to a single, ROM based drive offset, YA-DOS supports
on-the-fly setting and multiple partitions in use (14 per device, 4 in
simultaneous use).  Removable media of different sorts (SD,CF,DW)
becomes much easier to use as the media itself contains it's own
partition table.

YA-DOS also provides for better integration of BASIC and Drive Wire4's
(DW) and CoCoSDC (SDC) user interface.  New BASIC commands have been
added to allow for control of disk images.  The insertion and mounting
of disk images in DW and SDC can now be fully automated with YA-DOS
at boot.  DriveWire's advanced controls over server logs, MIDI
channels, is now at least partially supported.


Get it here:    https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/ya-dos
(includes dsk image, SDCDOS rom burner app, ROM image, Docs, and a
"FDISK"-like partitioning program)

email if you have questions, comments, suggestions, flames....

-- 
Brett M. Gordon,
beretta42 at gmail.com