On 5/11/22 21:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
In the meantime (as a proof of concept?), you can manually read and
write sectors with SUPERZAP ?
On Wed, 11 May 2022, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Wow, SuperZAP. Time do build a System with NEWDOS80. :-)
Well, it's a good one to have.
There are lots of alternatives to SUPERZAP, including TRAKCESS, whose
source code will answer a few questions about TRS80 disk access.
Allen Gelder (Superstep) once told me that TRAKCESS had been Roixton
Baker's major assembly language learning project.
SuperUtility
and, TRSCROSS by Mike Gingel does some disk format conversion.
I'll look up some of these. I wrote a diskzap of my own (didn't
we all?) many moons ago but I don't still have a copy or remember
anything about how I did it. But SuperZAP came with NEWDOS80 and
I probably used it the most. Usually for removing passwords. :-)
and create a program in PL/M that makes boot floppies.
Well, at least to write the boot code to the disk. Still have
to figure out what files need to be there for each OS and come
up with a way to copy them. Hopefully as automated as possible.
But not right now as tomorrow I leave for Walter Reed Hospital.
Yikes.
I hope that that's as a doctor/consultant/visitor, not for treatment.
Nope, the consultations are over. Monday they rebuild my knee. I
wanted the bionic one but I didn't have the 6 Million Dollars.
At least there I will get a rebuild and not the hack job
replacement that is the norm where I live.
bill
