hajohnso@eos.ncsu.edu (Harold Johnson) (02/27/91)
Does anyone have any idea what has become of Happy computers? I have a Happy 1050 and I'm looking for the source code to their software (the Warp Speed stuff) so I can code up some good hacks to access the weird areas of the disk that weren't meant to be touched by user hands (such as sector headers, sector order on each track, etc.). I called Happy a few years ago and they wouldn't tell me jack even though I was a registered user (and in fact had bought my Happy mod directly from them, not a dealer). I would appreciate any information about the mod if anyone has hand-hacked their code (which I found a bit too time consuming to attempt) including what values I need to dump to the drive to get it to go into programming mode, what parameters I can download into the drive's RAM, etc. There are some neat things on the disk they supplied with version 7.0 but I suspect they were always holding back due to copyright laws or something. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
frankh@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Frank Hamlin) (02/28/91)
> Does anyone have any idea what has become of Happy computers? I have a > Happy 1050 and I'm looking for the source code to their software (the > Warp Speed stuff) so I can code up some good hacks to access the weird > areas of the disk that weren't meant to be touched by user hands (such > as sector headers, sector order on each track, etc.). I called Happy a > few years ago and they wouldn't tell me jack even though I was a > registered user (and in fact had bought my Happy mod directly from them, > not a dealer). A couple of year ago you could get the software to make your Happy work like an Archiever. The Archiever allows you to see what has been done to the disk, and to modify it. You might try and get a Copy of that software.