Hi,
The MAKE_DIR command first appeared for the Miracle Hard drive, whic was the fisrt stable hard drive system for the QL, as I ran a BBS on a 40Mb Miracle Hard Drive for a long time. Maybe the command to make hard directories was incorporated in the Trump card Toolkit 2 rom, but it did notreally work on floppy drives... well the one I had. It was not till the Gold Card appeared, that I had a hard directory system on floppy disks.
This seems a long time ago, running a BBS on on 768K Trump card with 40Mb hard drive, Qconnect, Amstrad SM2400 modem and Qbox BBS software. Apart from the over run problems in the Qconnect, it all seemd to work... then Pbox, Qubide, Hermes and USR Courier modem made the system so much faster.
I still ike the idea of a BBS system, but I think maybe an Internet BBS would be a good idea. Do you think it would be worth the effort translating the BBS system to an Internet web site.
Derek
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phoebus Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Level 2 Drivers
??? Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:36 +0000,?(?) David Tubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????/wrote:
At 16:48 26/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:
MAKE_DIR was introduced not in a Toolkit 2 version (IIRC), but first appeared in the plug in replacement chip for the Trump Card. I therefore doubt that there is a Toolkit 2 image anywhere which contains the right code.
I do have a copy of v2.12 ROM file which can be used with emulators, but again this cannot understand level 2 directories
-- Rich Mellor
It occurs to me you are looking for oranges in a bag of apples. DUP +DDOWN (TKII) were for navigating mdv's, I imagine MAK_DIR is needed for HDD's, certainly as a parallel to the DOS command.
DUP and DDOWN is to navigate directories not MDVs ie if the MDV device has subdirectories it can navigate them as well. Actually your statement doesn't even make sense (as it would if you were to change drives via DUP/DDOWN ie you are on MDV1 and DUP will take you to MDV2 (which is not what happens anyway). MAKE_DIR applies to whichever device has Level 2 drivers. Floppies do for example and the RomDISQ does as TT's RAM disk... (so it is not only HDDs as you wrongly assume)
BTW after a small illness I am back (and back from Greece as well) :-P
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