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TBXL worked fine on my 65C816 Atari, when I had it. I of course only used it under SpartaDOS X, but that should not influence its general operation. Only BLOAD/BRUN instructions may fail under anything else than DOS 2.5, but this should always happen regardless of the CPU used.
TBXL is only sensitive to the math pack - if you replace the original math pack (in ROM) with the Fastchip, TBXL will fail.
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In Topic: SpartaDOS X 4.45
Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:09 PM
rdea6, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:20 PM, said:
I just word wrapped all the text to 36 columns and tidied a few lines, added a few eols to space headings and one to the end of file. Googling and reading the SDX445 manual set pager=type..... was the first example I came across.
I see. But that's not necessary, just use LESS as the pager. It folds the lines automatically to fit on the screen.
In Topic: SpartaDOS X 4.45
Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:06 PM
a8isa1, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:40 PM, said:
- CONFIG.SYS or .CFGs (in SPARTA.DOS) don't seem to work if they are on an Atari DOS format disk or a MyDOS format disk/ATR
Already answered.
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- Question: Regarding the configuration menu, If I do nothing then after a couple seconds "[A] default" is automatically selected. Is there there a way to make one of the other selections the automatic choice?
On some hardware only. Certain builds are for devices which contain RTCs with oboard NV-RAM. Then the last selection is stored in the NV-RAM and read from there at next startup. It works so on IDE Plus 2.0 and Ultimate1MB. Basically any type of battery-backed RAM may be supported, provided that its presence is easily detectable and storing the selection does not conflict with anything.
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I have no problems copying files from classic partions to the new partitons but if I copy from the new back to the classic the VTOC (MyDOS 4.53/4) gets messed up. I end up with wrong sizes and crosslinked files.
Now I don't expect old MyIDE and MyDOS to be supported by SDX but my issue might be something more general. I think I know what's happening. SDX seems to be assuming that those classic MyIDE partitions are 720 sectors in size. They are not. Could SDX be having problems because classic MyIDE does not support Percom blocks?
Now I don't expect old MyIDE and MyDOS to be supported by SDX but my issue might be something more general. I think I know what's happening. SDX seems to be assuming that those classic MyIDE partitions are 720 sectors in size. They are not. Could SDX be having problems because classic MyIDE does not support Percom blocks?
IIRC, the ATARIDOS.SYS driver does not rely on PERCOM blocks. It however relies on STATUS block (but so does MyDOS, so I guess the STATUS block is correct,if MyDOS works), and on the first byte of the VTOC. Last time I checked copying to MyDOS-formatted partition (8 MB in size) worked flawlessly, eventhough what I did was a massive copying of files with COPY /R.
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- Do there exist any programming notes for writing a driver for new RTCs?
Not yet. I am now at pains of translating the general programming manual to English, when this is complete, I may proceed with writing sections of it on writing the drivers.
In Topic: SpartaDOS X 4.45
Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:26 PM
rdea6, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:53 AM, said:
This is my version of manpages.arc for SDX4xx. couldn't upload an arc file so I added manpages.arc.zip to file. Just rename to manpages.arc.
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MANPAGES.ARC.ZIP
compiled with The Last Word 3.21b using a word wrap macro with minimal reformating of text.
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MANPAGES.ARC.ZIPcompiled with The Last Word 3.21b using a word wrap macro with minimal reformating of text.
Thanks for sharing. Could you briefly describe, what did you change?
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But is does seem to work well with the SET PAGER=TYPE ;%;/P
Why not SET PAGER=LESS ?
