Geolink booted from IDE64

Finally something worth to show, geolink is as usable from ide64 as from anything else.

All debug code commented out, as that required USB, which (in my setup) occupies the same IO space as RR-Net.

No possibility to change disks yet, I have to do some more hacking to Configure for that.

But this sure is worth a look if you happen to have an IDE64, preferably with RR-Net.

Just copy boot,prg and geos,d64 to the same dir on your ide64, run boot,prg and watch the fastest geos boot you've seen from "floppy" ;)

Bifogade filer
FilTypStorlekUppladdadVisad
geolink-ide64-20100603.tar.gzapplication/gzip52.42 kB2010-06-03 15:35:41368
Geolink with loader and Geos patched for running from a .d64 on IDE64
Comments

Från Schema, 2010-07-12 04:43:13 on Geolink booted from IDE64

Very cool! Some suggestions...

1. The IDE64 convention for the boot file is to start it with ! i.e. rename your boot file to "!boot,prg" so it can be run with F1.

2. Can you support .D81 files? Then many more apps could be fit on the virtual disk!
Svar: 1. No problem, I thought I already did that, but obviously not this time. ;)

2. Of course. I just have to start with something, and I still have some problems with this. But emulating via d81 would be almost the same, just another offset for track/sectors.