Fairlight-CMI

Le 2 janv. 2013 à 16:58, Joe Sleator a écrit :

> >  I've been looking for one for quite a while. Now I can also start to play with my Motorola EXORset.
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> Excellent! I thought everybody knew about bitsavers!
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> There's a fairly complete set of diskette images up there as well for some Motorola machine, possibly yours.
> 
> Have you got editors and assemblers and so forth?

Also in last version of QDOS ;)

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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:59 AM, dvdborn <dvdborn@pandora.be> wrote:
>  
> A big thanks for the info!
> 
> And I'm glad to have finally found a QDOS manual. I've been looking for one for quite a while. Now I can also start to play with my Motorola EXORset.
> 
> Best,
> David
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> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Joe Sleator <joe.sleator@...> wrote:
> >
> > Your memory is sharp as a tack, Steve!
> > 
> > If, for whatever reason, you don't want to use the inbuilt "Transfer"
> > funciton Steve mentioned, documented in the CMI Owner's Manual (1985) at
> > C-2-10, you can boot your CMI with a QDOS diskette and use the COPY command
> > as well.
> > 
> > Many people, including me, would probably be happy to make and mail you a
> > QDOS utility diskette, in exchange for a known-good 8" floppy.
> > .
> > It's not better or easier, but may provide more precise control, depending
> > on what you want to do.
> > 
> > > I'm guessing that there's a QDOS copy command that should allow this. But
> > I don't have a QDOS manual.
> > 
> > It's documented in the Motorola MDOS (QDOS) (June 1979!) manual, which can
> > be got here:
> > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/motorola/6800/
> > Page 1 of Chapter 7.
> > 
> > Briefly, it works like this:
> > 
> > COPY MYFILE.RS:1, :0
> > 
> > Will copy MYFILE.RS from unit 1 (the righthand drive by default) to unit 0
> > (the left one) which presumably will be your QDOS boot diskette.
> > 
> > The destination argument need only be a drive unit number, filename, or
> > suffix, but can be all 3.
> > 
> > You'll then have to copy it from your QDOS boot diskette to your intended
> > target diskette with something like:
> > COPY MYFILE.RS:0, :1
> > You can rename it whilst copying by specifying a new name, COPY MYFILE.RS:0,
> > OTHERFILE.RS:1
> > 
> > IIRC, the CMI GUI version will use RAM to minimize diskette swaps, but if
> > you are suspicious of your RAM it would be safer to use the QDOS command.
> > QDOS is also handy for copying other kinds of files which are not CMI
> > content files, i.e. not Instrument, Voice, RS, Sequence, or MCL files, to
> > other floppies or floppy emulators.
> > 
> > Joe
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