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Remove some obsolete comments from ReadMe file Also add a comment in the ChangeLog file to tell that changes are documented in the mercurial log. Would still be nice if we could list major changes or new features in the ChangeLog or other file...
author Tormod Volden <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
date Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:57:41 +0100
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68 floppy disk. The image file transfer should start. When it is done, 68 floppy disk. The image file transfer should start. When it is done,
69 take out the disk and try booting your CoCo with it. 69 take out the disk and try booting your CoCo with it.
70 70
71 Repeat steps 3-5 for each additional disk. 71 Repeat steps 3-5 for each additional disk.
72 72
73 Addendum by Gene Heskett
74 73
75 Unfortunately, many of the fdc chipsets shipping on motherboards for 74 NOTES
76 the last 5 years or so, do NOT understand, and will probably crash your 75 =====
77 pc when a 256 byte/sector disk read or write is attempted. This rather 76 Unfortunately, many of the FDC chipsets shipping on PC motherboards do NOT
78 high priced Asus M2n-SLI Deluxe board is one such board, so using floppies 77 understand, and will probably crash your PC when a 256 byte/sector disk
79 for the 'sneakernet' to get this stuff onto my coco3 cannot be done. 78 read or write is attempted. The Asus M2n-SLI Deluxe board is one such board.
80 email to gheskett AT wdtv DOT com.
81 79
82 1. This repo is newer than the sourceforge repo, and a lot more of it 80 When using DriveWire, the appropriate for your machine .dsk
83 Just Works(TM). If you find something that doesn't, use the above 81 file can be downloaded and mounted directly as a fully read/write
84 email address. 82 virtual disk. Please see for instance the tutorial at
83 http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_DriveWire
85 84
86 2. This repo's work will be transfered back to sourceforge when I can
87 figure out how to do a commit in mercurial. Tutorials on this are welcome.
88 There are, since I did the hg clone about the 27th of October 2012,
89 probably at least 50 files needing committed, changed in getting this
90 back to buildable and bootable.
91
92 3. Since we now have drivewire, the appropriate for your machine .dsk
93 files can be downloaded and mounted directly as a fully read/write
94 virtual disk. Drivewire is the cats meow, many thanks to Aaron Wolfe.
95 Make yourself a cable and join in on the dance floor, its amazing.
96
97 4. I am still using mamou as the assembler, no attempt has been made
98 to convert it to using William Astles lwtools just yet as I wanted
99 this to be as close to 100% usable as possible before attempting the
100 conversion so that only the conversion generated errors remain. There
101 will be some teething problems while that is going on in a separate
102 tree that won't be visible until it Just Works(TM).
103
104 5. One thing that was recently done by Boisy was to convert the
105 boot_scsi.asm file from, because of code size constraints, the use of
106 the former drive addressing scheme of a single marching set bit across
107 the scsi bus drive address field, into a base zero decimal scheme, so the
108 drive address contained in the 4th byte from the end can now be looked
109 at as a decimal value where $00 is now a legal address for drive 0 on
110 the bus. A MAJOR change, and one in the right direction IMO, that was
111 not even mentioned in the comments of the boot_scsi.asm header till I
112 discovered it yesterday while reading the code trying to figure out why
113 with that byte set to $01 like it had been for years, the boot was
114 failing because it was trying to find OS9Boot on my drive 1, s1, and
115 fixed the makefiles accordingly.
116
117 6. I am not trying to keep this a secret but it probably will not get
118 any ink on the coco list until such time as I have committed to source-
119 forge and that repo is again useable, so bear with me. I have cable
120 dsl so my 'intertube' at 3 megabits isn't that fast. A lot of traffic
121 will probably result in my isp blocking the port address I do use to
122 get past the port 80 block just like they do without admitting to it
123 because if they did admit it, the FCC would probably discuss their
124 common carrier status with the ISP's legal dept. As that status has
125 huge tax and licensing advantages to the ISP, they will not give that
126 status up without a prolonged court fight. I have even considered
127 putting this page on port 6809, but when and if that happens, you'll
128 see it in my email sig.
129
130 Thats all for now folks, keep the old girl running till the rapture
131 or whatever.
132
133 Cheers, Gene