I answered my own question by reading the TS-DOS manual. Apparently there are
two files. The first is called BOOT. It's job is to load TSLOAD.CO into memory.
TSLOAD.CO loads DOSXXX.CO into memory.
So does anybody have a copy of BOOT and TSLOAD.CO?
Kurt
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:13 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]>
wrote:
All of this talk about loading a DOS client got be thinking about the RAM
versions of TS-DOS. The .CO files for 100/200/NEC are readily available. But I
have been having trouble locating the TSLOAD program and what i think is the
Basic code that loads it.
Based on the documentation, an IPL.BA program is created with a one liner as
follows.10 RUN "COM: 98N1E" or 10RUN "COM: 98N1ENN" for the 200.
Then the disk drive is turned on (TPDD-2) and I assume TSLOAD is transfered.
But that would indicate to me that the disk drive is sending over some Basic
code to run rather than machine language. And that Basic code in turn loads the
ram version of TS-DOS. Or perhaps it just loads TSLOAD.CO which in turn loads
DOSXXX.CO. Whichever the case, does anyone have that initial Basic code? I was
thinking about adding the ability to simulate that in mComm.
Kurt
