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NitrOS-9 Ease Of Use for XRoar, GlensideIDE, and SuperIDE
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xroar drive images? #1

Open debmint opened 3 months ago

debmint commented 3 months ago

This is not an issue, but a question and since you don't have a Discussions section, I'll just go through here. I'm interested in possibly using xroar for my coco emulations instead of mame. I rarely emulate the coco, but it seems that almost every time I try in mame, they've changed the requirements, especially for floppies and get more restrictive all the time. I had this statement in my coco3 config: "ext:fdcv11:wd17xx:0 525qd" and now it seems that it won't accept this. It also seems to view a ds-40t floppy as an 80t and rejects it.

I incorporated this repository and ran the start-ide.sh script. It all came up but I cannot access /d0 and if I add a /d1 drive, it seems to not recognize it.

I'm not particularly interested in EOU or even having an IDE drive. My floppies, and my vhd hard drive images are created with toolshed utilities. I posted a query on coco pairlist and got some responses there - some related to what I wanted and some not.
I was not able to find any comprehensive documentation for xroar, but I'm under the impression that maybe the hard drive image requires a header, and am not sure I can even access the image directly.

If you can, please clarify just what is possible with xroar, and is there any way to see /d0-/d1 from the "eou_ide" intereface. Can you boot from say "-load-fd0 bootdisk.dsk -load-hd0 hdimage.vhd". If the image(s) require a header, how can this be generated? And, I'm thinking that if a header is employed, the device descriptor has to start past this header.

Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated. I've seen your Youtube video relating to eou_ide.

allenhuffman commented 3 months ago

I need to sit down and learn how the XROAR drive images work. The only one I’ve ever used was this EoU image. It seems it should be simple to make a tool that just converts a CoCoSDC style hard drive image in to something XROAR will accept.

debmint commented 3 months ago

On Wed, 2024-08-07 at 12:16 -0700, Allen Huffman wrote:

I need to sit down and learn how the XROAR drive images work. The only one I’ve ever used was this EoU image. It seems it should be simple to make a tool that just converts a CoCoSDC style hard drive image in to something XROAR will accept.

With this were you able to see your floppies? As I stated in my query, I'm not interested in anything fancy, just something I can boot up my Coco image and do everything from the command line.

allenhuffman commented 3 months ago

Floppies mount and work just fine. On Windows, just Ctrl-1 (for drive 1) and browse to the .dsk image, and you are set. If you want to make one, you can even create an empty floppy in the emulator, then DSKINI it from BASIC to format it. This may help - https://subethasoftware.com/2023/01/12/xroar-emulator-and-loading-and-saving-to-tape-and-disk/