Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Jarek Adamski
Hi! Andrew Gale wrote: Would a CD drive connected to an Atom interface be able to read a PC CD full of DSKs? I thought about something like: DIR=AFILE.DSK what means selecting diskimages as changing current path. The diskimages could be driven by additional Resident System Extention, loaded

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Original Message On 11/5/00, 9:51:07 PM, Jarek Adamski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Bigd isk: Luke Trevorrow wrote: Why don't we look at porting a new OS of some sort. For me the problem is: what for? I see the sense in making a filesystem for big disk. If there's a

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Howard Price
Someone, could be Luke Trevorrow, wrote: Cross compilation into Z80 - what about SDCC, but I'm sure there are others. How good is Small C on the SAM (which I would like to get a copy of)? Well, after giving SAM C another go I have to take back the majority of what I said before. If you forgive

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Luke Trevorrow
That's very nice of you mate - I would love a copy. Do you want any cash for this? Luke Original Message On 11/6/00, 9:11:53 AM, Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regardingR e: Big disk: Someone, could be Luke Trevorrow, wrote: Cross compilation into Z80 - what about SDCC, but I'm

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Frode Tenneboe
Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere I still have my Z80 cross compiler. Runs on a PC (dos) and generates Z80 code. It is not a small C but a full implementation, as you would expect for almost £1,000.00 What's the name? -Frode

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Aley Keprt
@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:05 PM Subject: RE: Big disk Original Message On 10/31/00, 12:52:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: Big disk: Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both 16bit processors... This is true - but doesn't

Re: Big disk

2000-11-06 Thread Ian Collier
(I think the problem is video in mode 512x384 -- very slow text mode). You should try the console of a Sparc 1 - even the Sam's text output would run rings around it. imc

RE: Big disk

2000-11-04 Thread Simon Owen
Frode Tenneboe wrote: snip I for one would be interested in adding support for the SAM into one of these compilers. Anyone else - a cross compiler team? Sounds like fun - count me in! Si

RE: Big disk

2000-11-04 Thread Justin . Skists
I would like it... but at what price? -Original Message- From: Nev Young [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I for one would be interested in adding support for the SAM into one of these compilers. Anyone else - a cross compiler team? Somewhere I still have my Z80 cross compiler. Runs

Re: Big disk

2000-11-03 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:34:39 -, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:47 PM Subject: RE: Big disk tidy, anyone got the circuit diagram for the interface

Re: Big disk

2000-11-03 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:29:12 +0100 (MET), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the Operating Systems mentioned are in C but have some Assembly code for booting purposes. ELKS like linux has a small bit of 8086 to read BIOS and sort itself

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Gale
Would a CD drive connected to an Atom interface be able to read a PC CD full of DSKs? Cheers, Andy

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Luke Trevorrow
:18:39 AM, Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Big disk: Would a CD drive connected to an Atom interface be able to read a PC CD full of DSKs? Cheers, Andy ** This e-mail is private and confidential

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:22 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Big disk Why don't we look at porting a new OS of some sort. This is one of the things that was mentioned when Dave was on this list inspiring people. Howzabout GEMDOS or one

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Howard Price
At 11:22 31/10/2000 GMT, Luke Trevorrow wrote: Why don't we look at porting a new OS of some sort. This is one of the things that was mentioned when Dave was on this list inspiring people. Howzabout GEMDOS or one of the embedded UNIX kernels like ELKS

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both 16bit processors... -Original Message- From: Luke Trevorrow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:33 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Big disk Sorry - the URL has moved

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Luke Trevorrow
If I remember rightly, I don't think I liked GemDos when I last used ito n a PC. Or am I thinking of something else? GEMDOS was used on the ST and you could stick GEM on top of it. It was written by the same peeps as CPM. Wasn't bad but doesn't Multitask (in its orignal form on the ST) but

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
ELKS it's mostly in C, I believe. looking at the FAQ, it seems to be a subset of the normal Linux Kernel. -Original Message- From: Howard Price [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:36 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Big disk At 11:22 31/10

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Original Message On 10/31/00, 12:36:05 PM, Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Big disk: At 11:22 31/10/2000 GMT, Luke Trevorrow wrote: Why don't we look at porting a new OS of some sort. This is one of the things that was mentioned when Dave was on this list inspiring

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Original Message On 10/31/00, 12:52:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: Big disk: Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both 16bit processors... This is true - but doesn't mean that it's impossible. I think on the web site it mentions Z80

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew Gale
Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both 16bit processors... This is true - but doesn't mean that it's impossible. I think on the web site it mentions Z80 machines as being in the plan. Didn't the original versions of UNIX run on 8 bit machines, with

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Frode Tenneboe
Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the Operating Systems mentioned are in C but have some Assembly code for booting purposes. ELKS like linux has a small bit of 8086 to read BIOS and sort itself out before firing up the kernel. Cross compilation into Z80 - what about SDCC, but

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message On 10/31/00, 12:52:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: Big disk: Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both 16bit processors... This is true - but doesn't mean that it's impossible. I think on the web site

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
Yes.. I was just thinking that myself... I'll be up for helping, I think -- once I got my home linux system up and running on my lowly 486. I did start with thinking about SAM support libs and headers on CP/M's Hitech C but it never took off. -Original Message- From: Frode Tenneboe

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Howard Price
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RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Luke Trevorrow
http://z88dk.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: 31/10/00 15:45 Subject: RE: Big disk That's cool! There shouldn't be too much trouble in knocking up SAM parts for it! what's the URL for z88dk? I'll check it out later

RE: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread Justin . Skists
Excellent... it sounds like it could be pretty useful. it sounds like it has a pretty extensive Speccy library. Maybe some of us should get our heads together to do a SAM library for it? Who's up for a challenge? :) -Original Message- From: Luke Trevorrow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread womoteam
Dean Woodyatt schrieb: so, can you connect the hdd to the sam, and copy all the spectrum games to it, and play them on the sam?, in tzx, tap, z80, etc format?, wouldnt it be reat to have a catalogue of 10,000 games rfeady to hand dean Much better Dean! If you have connected an Atom and a CD

Re: Big disk

2000-10-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:47 PM Subject: RE: Big disk tidy, anyone got the circuit diagram for the interface then? Contact Len Bennet - he's loads of pcb's he got from Malcom Mackenzie if I

Re: Big disk

2000-10-12 Thread Mac Buster
Jarek Adamski wrote: Hello! [...] TR-DOS is also media-related filesystem (people who have harddisk under TR-DOS divide it into 640kB partitions, too). No! There are three modes in HDD controller. In one of these modes you really can split partially or whole HDD space onto set of 640k