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For development, I've been using MESS's imgtool, and then Toolshed, but now I need to create/manipulate DragonDOS images and none of these utilities recognize them. What utilities are there available that run under Linux?

I have this tool to cover exactly this case, but it's a Windows .NET binary. Might run under Mono, but that's not tested. If it turns out that the Dragon community is mostly non-Windows, I might consider a port to more portable C++. It's not that much code.

-- Rolf

FINALLY got around to working on this again!

Yikes, Mono is no longer included in RHEL/CentOS. Have to install from sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318 ... n-centos-6

Gonna take a looooong time building. Will update when done to tell if it worked or not.

(But one way or the other, I thoroughly approve a port to C++.)

rolfmichelsen wrote:I have this tool to cover exactly this case, but it's a Windows .NET binary. Might run under Mono, but that's not tested. If it turns out that the Dragon community is mostly non-Windows, I might consider a port to more portable C++. It's not that much code.

-- Rolf

DragonTools seems to work OK under Linux, with Mono 3.x. I now have another problem: The .BIN I assembled with LWTOOLS doesn't load under the Dragon (emulated in MESS). I get a ?FM ERROR.

If you have a problematic file, post it here and somebody will probably figure it out pretty quickly.

— Rolf

rolfmichelsen wrote:If you have a problematic file, post it here and somebody will probably figure it out pretty quickly.

— Rolf

Here it is. I may be just using DragonDOS commands wrong. I tried:

CLEAR 500, &H6FFF
LOADM"CACHARS.BIN"

I also tried "LOAD" instead of "LOADM". The only thing I ever knew was DECB.

Wait, BIN didn't go. Here's a link: http://users.vialink.com.br/jcastro/cachars.bin

Did you use the DragonDos program from the DragonTools distribution to create the disk image? The DragonDos program will always copy files from the host filesystem to a DragonDos filesystem as a data file. I'll add an option to manually add a machine code or BASIC program header to the file. Maybe there will be a new release sometime during the holidays.

-- Rolf

rolfmichelsen wrote:Did you use the DragonDos program from the DragonTools distribution to create the disk image?

Yup.

rolfmichelsen wrote:The DragonDos program will always copy files from the host filesystem to a DragonDos filesystem as a data file. I'll add an option to manually add a machine code or BASIC program header to the file. Maybe there will be a new release sometime during the holidays.

I now see the BIN header for CoCo DECB and DragonDOS ML programs is different. Maybe I could do a conversion.

Does DragonDOS have a "file type" metadata like DECB has?

The DragonDos file header format is documented in the May 1987 issue of Dragon User, which is available from the archive. BASIC and machine code programs have a 9 byte header with file type and vrious metadata. Data files do not have a header.

-- Rolf

JCCyC wrote:
The only thing I ever knew was DECB.

You can download a copy of the DragonDOS manual (An Introduction To DragonDOS By Alan Mayer) from: http://www.dragondata.co.uk/