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Cleaned up patches and attempted to keep tempo intact. Unfortunately tempo is 1.23x slower for no known reason. RG
author robertgault
date Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:44:38 +0000
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1 This archive contains the disassembled source for SuperDos version E6,
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2 I have tidyed it up and partially commented it (it is a work in progress as
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3 respects to thie comments :) ).
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5 I have also (hopefully) successfully ported it to the Dragon Alpha hardware,
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6 so that it may be used with Mess' Alpha emulation, or with a real Alpha.
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8 As of January 2006, this code has also been ported to run on the Tandy RS-DOS
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9 and compatible controlers when attached to a Dragon, thested so far are FD-500
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10 (P.Harvey-Smith) and FD-502, Disto Super Controller I (Boisy Pitre).
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12 The tools required to build this are :-
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14 1) A version of Make, I used the gnu one, but any reasonable make should work.
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15 2) The mamou assembler from NitrOS9's toolshed, available from www.nitros9.org,
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16 I will hopefully soon have permission to upload a binary version of this.
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17 3) Aditionally to build the zips you will need pkzip (or zip under Unix/Linux).
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19 The directories are structured as follows :-
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21 SuperDos
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23 Makefile Project makefile
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24 superdos-e6-03.asm Source to SuperDos.
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25 dgndefs.asm Defines for inclusion in superdos-e6-03.asm
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26 dosdefs.asm Defines for dos variables
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27 romdefs.asm Defines of Basic rom vars and calls
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28 Readme.txt This file !
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30 Subdirectories
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31 Dragon32 Dragon 32 build, dragondos cart
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32 Dragon64 Dragon 64 build, dragondos cart
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33 DgnAlpha Dragon Alpha build, internal disk hardware
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34 TanoD64 Tano Dragon 64, RS-DOS compatible cartrage
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35 disks Contains a zipped image of the AlphaDos boot disk, this may be used
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36 with mess or written to disk and used with a real Alpha.
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38 If you want to build dos for use with Mess, extract the relevent romset into
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39 the above directory.
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40
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41 Make targets.
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43 The makefile contains the following targets, to build them type make followed
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44 by one of :-
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46 all Builds everything.
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47 alpha Builds SuperDos for the Alpha, in file dragondos-alpha.bin
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48 ddos Builds SuperDos, for the vanilla DragonDos cartragein file dragondos-ddos.bin.
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49 ddd32 Builds SuperDos, for the Dragon32 for Mess in : dragon32\dragon32.zip
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50 ddd64 Builds SuperDos, for the Dragon64 for Mess in : dragon64\dragon64.zip
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51 dddalpha Builds SuperDos, for the Dragon Alpha for Mess in : dgnalpha\dgnalpha.zip
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52 sdtano Builds SuperDos, for the Tano Dragon/RS-DOS for Mess in : tanodr64\tanodr64.zip
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54 The raw rom images will also be built in the above directories.
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56 The files superdos-ddos.bin and superdos-alpha.bin are raw binary images and are suitable
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57 for blowing into an eprom for use on a real machine.
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59 All source is (C) 1983 DragonData Ltd, (C) 1986 ?? Grosvenor Software, except the Alpha port which
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60 is (C) 2004, P.Harvey-Smith, and the RS-DOS port which is (C) 2006, P.Harvey-Smith.