I seem to recall someone asking about obtaining DIBOL for their VMS system
recently. As of yesterday the Freeware V5.0 CD-ROM is online, and in
looking through it I spotted the DIBOL distro. Looks like an excellent
CD-ROM, and I just might have to break down and get it, it's mostly stuff
that wasn't on the V4.0 CD-ROM, and I think there is a lot more stuff on
there.
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/
Zane
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Hello, all:
Well, I've got the TrackStar working well now. I've also put up a
simple Web page on my site (http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
to discuss the TS.
I was able to get my hands on a PDF scan of the manual, which I will
be posting shortly. The manual isn't the best written manual in the world,
but it's better than nothing. The same guy also sent me a few working APP
images that have some useful utilities on them, including CopyII.
I don't think that the disk copying utility included with the TS
works properly (it supposedly does a track-by-track copy). The only way I've
been able to get a new image to work is to create a blank APP (image) file
and initialize it from within Apple DOS. Then, I used COPYA to copy files
>from an Apple disk to the APP image file. No other way seems to work.
Now I have to get the ProDOS volumes working, as well as the Apple+
compatibility mode. It needs an Apple II+ ROM file, which I have, but I
don't know what to name it or where it goes. The TS manual only mentions it
in brief.
I also ran the utilities STAR.COM, STAR.SYS, and TSUTILIT.COM
through Sourcer, but I haven't read the listings in any great detail. It
seems that the TS listens on a few odd port numbers (6969h, 6967h, etc.). It
would help if I had a schematic...
Rich
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