[Coco] ANN: YA-DOS Beta

[Kip Koon]

Hi Brett!
Whoo-Hoo!  Finally!  My mouth is watering just thinking about the possibilities!  I'll be putting this DOS through its paces over the next week or so.  Thanks A Bunch for all the effort you must have put into this project!

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon



-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Brett Gordon
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:23 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: [Coco] ANN: YA-DOS Beta

"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....

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Brett M. Gordon,
beretta42 at gmail.com

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