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Merging RomWBW and Demo Disk images? [message #8197]

Fri, 15 January 2021 07:34

rcini
Messages: 64
Registered: October 2015
Location: Long Island, NY

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I just finished building the SC131 kit from Steve Cousins (a great kit, btw) which uses RomWBW 3.0.1. I burned a copy of a disk image called "N8VEM DEMO DISK TOOLS" to a 512MB SD card but that image doesn't have any "slices" on it, so it can't be used with anything other than the ROM-based CP/M.

I really like the RomWBW "hd_combo" image because it allows me to run CPM3 and ZSDOS. As you can see, there's a lot of good stuff included on the DEMO DISK image. Can I merge the two somehow, or maybe what's the best way to combine the slices of RomWBW and the user programs below? I could probably tick through the individual user areas to pick-and-choose to add them to an individual slice.

The "demo" archive has 4 drives with about 7 user areas each:

drive_c:
1_BDS_TINY_C
2_APL
3_JANUS_ADA15
4_MS_COBOL
5_PILOT
6_SYSLIB
7_BBC BASIC

drive_d:
0_GAMES
1_MUMATHSIMP
2_CROSSTALK
3_QTERM43
4_CLINK
5_SUPERSFTUTIL
6_RCPM
7_DDTZ SOURCES

drive_e:
0_UTILS???
1_F80M80BASIC
2_AZTEC_C_106D
3_TPASCAL3
4_DXFORTH401
5_PLI14
6_ALGOLM

drive_f:
0_NEWUTILS
1_ROMS
2_ZSYSTEM
3_MICROPRO
4_MULTIPLAN
5_DBASEII
6_DWG_APPS
7
8_MICROSHELL
9_GAMES

Thanks!
Rich

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Re: Merging RomWBW and Demo Disk images? [message #8199 is a reply to message #8197]

Fri, 15 January 2021 11:03

dittman
Messages: 9
Registered: February 2019

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The easiest way would probably be to use cpmtools to copy everything from the demo image to disk and then copy them from there to RomWBW hd images and then save those new hd images somewhere to add to a new hd_combo image. That's what I've done with a set of programs I want to have whenever I do a new RomWBW build.

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Re: Merging RomWBW and Demo Disk images? [message #8200 is a reply to message #8199]

Fri, 15 January 2021 14:47

rcini
Messages: 64
Registered: October 2015
Location: Long Island, NY

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Thanks for that, good suggestion. I have previously run Wayne's "build" script to rebuild the entire image tree when I used it for my original N8VEM Z80 board. I think the issue will be that there won't be enough space for all of the user areas from the DEMO. I might try paring it down to the "necessities" and then rebuilding and seeing what happens.

As an alternative, I guess I could rebuild the ROM with ZCPR rather than standard CP/M but that feels clunky.

Stuff to work on this weekend! Will report back.

Rich

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Re: Merging RomWBW and Demo Disk images? [message #8203 is a reply to message #8200]

Sat, 16 January 2021 08:16

dittman
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Registered: February 2019

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If you make them separate hd images you should be able to fit them all and then you can use ASSIGN to mount them as required.

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Re: Merging RomWBW and Demo Disk images? [message #8232 is a reply to message #8203]

Sun, 24 January 2021 17:56

Wayne W
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Registered: October 2015
Location: Fallbrook, California, US...

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dittman wrote on Sat, 16 January 2021 08:16

If you make them separate hd images you should be able to fit them all and then you can use ASSIGN to mount them as required.

In fact, I think you should be able to just concatenate hd_combo and the demo disk image and then write the concatenated result file to your CF/SD Card. The demo disk drives will just show up after the hd_combo drives. As mentioned, you will need to use the ASSIGN command to access the higher slices.

-Wayne

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