I don't think SAMDOS should be on each disk. It is convenient for using the
disk with simcoupe
until simcoupe has a 'replacement boot' feature (hint hint !) that boots
dos from a virtual drive when
attemting to boot from a nono bootable disk.
Edwin
I think that in the real world a DOS >is< on each disk (or at least 98% or so). Having 32KB ROM full of rarely used stuff instead of DOS is one of the biggest mistakes of Sam designers. (I remember Atari ST did the same way when it was launched back in 1985. But the initial mistake was detected soon after and replaced by a different ROM containing DOS inside.) I would rather let tape users load basic from tape, than disk users to load dos from a disk. (Big sorry to all tape users... :-)
I think that booting from a virtual disk would be very good. Wow, who will implement it? :-)
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Aley
