Dan_Zehme@DGC.MCEO.DG.COM (07/09/90)
CEO summary: Over the weekend, I finally got around to installing NovaDos and I am currently working on installing ZCPR3 on the QX-10. In installing NovaDos, I discovered after some debuging that the BIOS was patching the BDOS was causing things to be screwed up when the BDOS was replaced with a different version, but I got it to work. I tried getting Z80DOS to work, but it keeps coldbooting. Installing ZCPR3 is difficult, but with the BDOS replacement, I think I can work out a way where I just add a BIOS extension overwriting the BDOS and using the original BIOS for services (this is where the ZCPR3 buffers will be stored, along with the cold boot requirements) and BDOS and BIOS will be loaded below that. My questions are: (1) Has anyone else installed any of these things on a QX-10? (If someone is insterested in using them after I am through, I would be interested to here from them as well). (2) In loading NovaDos, it mentions a library NVDSUTL.LBR, and Z80DOS mentions library 2 of 3 as being Z8D24SUP.LBR. Does anyone have these two libraries? They are not on simtel20 where I got everything else. (3) Any suggestions about installing ZCPR3 to use bank switching or in a fixed BIOS size environment? Thanks.