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by tgmaxx
Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:46 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: aim-65 floppy disk control
Replies: 26
Views: 24926

Re: aim-65 floppy disk control

No they won’t. I believe when I coded the DOS interpreter I used DSAVE and DLOAD similar to the Commodore DOS that it was modeled on. The regular Save and Load was supposed to work with the simulator on which the sbcos originally ran on. But, I confess, I’d need to trace through the code to be sure ...
by tgmaxx
Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:49 am
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: aim-65 floppy disk control
Replies: 26
Views: 24926

Re: aim-65 floppy disk control

It's been a long time since I've used the board extensively, but the overall command parser is in BASIC itself. My recollection is that it's particular as to how commands are entered (i.e., all caps, no spaces, etc.), but I'd really have to experiment with it again. There have been updates to the ...
by tgmaxx
Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:53 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: aim-65 floppy disk control
Replies: 26
Views: 24926

Re: Floppies



Using the Commodore drive is a good solution for many homebuilt projects as it already has some intelligence built-in. Richard Cini and I have been working on this for some time and he has successfully extracted the serial communications routines from the VIC-20 KERNAL, cleaned them up, and ...