N* Lives!

[Steven Hirsch]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, allison wrote:

> Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Thanks to Dave Dunfield's fine work, I have my Horizon system up and 
>> running!
>> 
>> One thing still puzzles, me though:  Is it possible to create and boot SD 
>> diskettes on a DD system?  When I boot at DD and bring up NST, it 
>> cheerfully writes a SD diskette from an image.  However, that image will 
>> not boot.  Should this work?
>> 
> Yes, however you must forst format the disk as DD and when you do the copy 
> you must also specify DD for the destination.  Its in the horizon DD manuals.

Huh. Don't recall seeing anything about that, but will re-check.


>> Next hurdle is getting the Morrow Disk Jockey 8" controller hooked in. Some 
>> of the diskettes I received with the unit (none of which boot) have Basic 
>> and ASM programs that look like they're intended as support for the DJ 
>> controller.  Without documentation, this is going to take a bit of 
>> experimentation, I think.
>> 
> Get docs as that will save a huge amount of time.  They are likely on 
> Bitsavers or other archives.

I have the Morrow Design docs, but the software discussed is all for CP/M. 
This box came with a bunch of BASIC and ASM programs that look like they 
are intended to patch N*DOS for the 8" controller.  Cannot find anything 
out about them, though, thus the comment about trial and error.

Steve


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