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| subject: | //e emulator needed - that supports DOS 3.3 400K multi-volume |
I have been supporting a system that has been in place since 1985, that works on a modified DOS on a Corvus OmniDrive. The kicker, it's not just normal DOS 3.3, it's highly tweaked to get more than 35 tracks of space per volume. A modified RWTS uses two actual volumes as one- instead of accessing 16 sectors, it does 32. Sectors higher than 16 are mapped the to the next volume. So a storage space equal to two volumes is available for a single random access txt file. The application itself is written in Applesoft BASIC, and doesn't fit in the ProDOS memory space. I'm trying to have a failsafe environment to fall back on if I can't get any more Corvus Omnidrive parts, while they migrate off this onto something else. That migration was supposed to happen this week, but it's been put off due to shenanigans from the software vendor hawking the Windows stuff, keeping adding more fees to stuff and saying it can't do stuff that they said it can. This system as placed in use in 1985, in DOS 3.3, and has been chugging along ever since. Ideally, an emulator would be OS X based, though since I know of all of those.. and none do it.. essentially, Sider emulation.. and heck, if I needed to I could probably move this guy onto a Sider, I have a few of those. But that would loose the multiuser bit for the time being. --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32* Origin: Derby City Gateway (1:2320/0) SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 34/999 120/228 123/500 140/1 222/2 226/0 236/150 249/303 SEEN-BY: 250/306 261/20 38 100 1404 1406 1410 1418 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 SEEN-BY: 393/11 396/45 633/260 267 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 2222/700 SEEN-BY: 2320/100 105 200 2905/0 @PATH: 2320/0 100 261/38 633/260 267 |
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