On Oct 24, 1:13pm in "Bob's amazing hard-drive plans...", you warbled: ] He has a "team" (doubtful) working on changing the basic ROM -- he's ] going to rip out the network code and replace it with an options ] screen (ala multiROM???? Methinks so) to boot from disc (f7), hard- ] drive (f8) or network (f9) (how, if he's ripping out the network ] code?)
Why? ] The Hard Drive will occupy ports 234-235 (ARGH! they're LPT2!!!) and Why? ] apparently the "design group" are having problems getting enough ] drives smaller than 40Mb to work with -- ie I think we're talking ] stupid file system that can't handle more than 40Mb HD's here folks... Why? ] Oh, and he wants to change how the dos works -- apparently putting ] the device in the filename is a no-no, so he's putting down these ] standards: ] ] CAT instead of DIR must be used (although you can do it the other ] way, in programs it will be changed back) ] <<"Because you CAT a directory, you don't DIR a directory">> What???? ] LOAD d1"filename" instead of LOAD "D1:filename" ] (although, again, you should be able to use the other, but it's not ] "preferred") ] <<"the device shouldn't be part of the filename as it causes all ] sorts of problems">> Bollocks does it. ] LOAD p<number> instead of LOAD <number> Crap. ] He wants it all to be very G+DOS compatible. I say hit him over the ] head with a cleaver -- the dimwit wants to keep it at Spectrum levels. cleaver? Nuclear cluster bomb... ] Needless to say in the next issue of SAM Prime, we'll be printing the ] PD hard-drive design, now that we've seen the crap he's coming up ] with. Really? Send it to me:) ] Anyway, let's get discussing this :) Is there any way we could just design something to sit in between a PC ISA slot and the Sam? The words `IDE i/face at \)ps8' spring to mind... I'm afraid I know very little about how the ISA bus works... is there anyone out there who could point me to somewhere to find out? It would be really neat to be able to plug in ISA stuff... although obviously the different architectures would get in the way of the more interesting cards... (soundblaster anyone?) Just an idea.. Geoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- INET)
