ns@iddth.UUCP (ns) (07/03/90)
MS-DOS Emulator V2 MS-DOS Emulator's V1.03 (demo/test) is to be followed by the full-featured V2 soon (I hope at the end of July - the work has been seriously delayed due to moving into a new house and the hard work related to that). A demo/test version will be posted on the net as soon as it will work. I intend to distribute the V2 as shareware, since it required some 6 months of work (mainly on evenings and during weekends - the temporary abandon of the work after V1.03 is not included). For making the emulator as much machine- and CP/M version-independent as possible, I would be very glad to get information on the format of Disk Parameters Blocks (DPBs) and Disk Parameters Headers (DPHs) used on different systems. My machine is a Commodore 128 with CP/M Plus. The only requirements to a system for running the MS-DOS Emulator are (1) to be able to read MFM diskettes with 40 tracks and 512-byte sectors and (2) to do no translation of the sector and track numbers. The second condition is not observed by some CP/M Plus systems (Commodore 128 is among them) and this is the reason of my request for information on DPBs and DPHs. Any BIOS sources (if not copyrighted) are also wellcomed. The MS-DOS Emulator V1.03 is a demo/test version running only on Commodore 128. The emulator allows the user to handle files on MS-DOS diskettes directly with CP/M's commands and programs. It makes, actually, the CP/M to recognize the MS-DOS format. The MS-DOS formats supported depends only on the possibilities of a certain system to read/write the MS-DOS diskettes. Long Haired Nicky -- | Nicky Sandru (alias Long Haired Nicky) | Backpacker's First Law: | Hoje Topholm 37 | e-mail: | "The thing you need lies either | DK-3390 Hundested | ns@iddth.id.dk | in the bottom of your backpack, | Denmark | ns@iddth2.id.dk | or in a closet at your home..." -- | Nicky Sandru (alias Long Haired Nicky) | Backpacker's First Law: | Hoje Topholm 37 | e-mail: | "The thing you need lies either | DK-3390 Hundested | ns@iddth.id.dk | in the bottom of your backpack, | Denmark | ns@iddth2.id.dk | or in a closet at your home..."