10 Jan
2006
10 Jan
'06
2:29 a.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
I have not tried it (don't have FD installed anywhere), however I don't see why
it would not - as long as FD leaves the FDC alone when it's not accessing it it
should be OK (I access the FDC by direct manipulation - the only DOS
functions I use specifically relating to the FDC are get/set the interrupt vector,
and the only BIOS function I use is "reset disk system" which I do just before
I exit).
Regards,
Dave
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IMD needs:
- unrestricted access to the floppy disk controller hardware.
- Nobody else messing with the FDC hardware/interrupts while it is
active.
- to not be held-up while some other task decides to hog the CPU for
a little while (there are real-time critical aspects to the analysis phase)
Winders 2K fails on pretty much all of the above. I haven't tried VPC, but
Matter of interest, and I haven't got time to try it, but will it work
in FreeDOS?