> HDOS is good, but could be better, and because of the lack of > co-operation from people on this list there seems little hope of > any advance in the near future.
Development on HDOS ceased due to Nev's hard disc going for a burton, if what the big guy told me is true[1] and has absolutely nothing to do with the "non co-operation" of this list. > There is BDOS, which seems from what I've heard, to be good is some > respects but fails because it does not allow you to use the hard drive > as one space. I'll try and add something useful to this comment: BDOS is a modified SAMDOS by Edwin Blink and is designed to operate with single floppy and/or the ATOM hard disc system. BDOS stores 800k disc images as records on the disc and then accesses them as a virtual second disc drive. It uses standard & extended BASIC syntax e.g. RECORD 1 to select records, READ WRITE LOAD SAVE etc.. HDOS is a "truer" disc operating system, but has a few nasty bugs and due to a large chunk of the source being lost[1], further development could be a little bit tricky. HDOS uses CALL statements for disc operations which IIRC are similar to CALL base+16,"program" You may download BDOS from NVG, or http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/edwin/ [2] Dan. Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shirk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VVeb: http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/ [1] Nev, this is what I understand from our conversation at the last Gloucester show - please let me know if I have the wrong end of the stick. [2] And before anybody asks I have no vested interest in BDOS, I'm just hosting it for Edwin cos I'm top geezer with lots of webspace :-)
