Spartados via SIO2PC-USB & Aspeqt

[netcoord99]

The SIO2PC-USB gadget is pretty cool and if you are using it this is the place we can share our problems & discoveries!

 

I'll start with an experience and problem and if you can answer it please do if you have had that experience and have a solution.

 

As I familiarize myself with this using the Aspeqt program, and the 800XL w/256K & US Doubler 1050 I hope we all learn and you can share some of your hills & valleys in the use of this gadget!

 

Problem 1: With the configuration above the last step to formatting, writing DOS and an initialization step is where it's freezing for me. This is version 1.1 of SpartaDOS and if you know what happened to the FORMAT files in the 3.2 versions I'd like to know.

[Jeffrey Worley]

2 hours ago, netcoord99 said:

The SIO2PC-USB gadget is pretty cool and if you are using it this is the place we can share our problems & discoveries!

 

I'll start with an experience and problem and if you can answer it please do if you have had that experience and have a solution.

 

As I familiarize myself with this using the Aspeqt program, and the 800XL w/256K & US Doubler 1050 I hope we all learn and you can share some of your hills & valleys in the use of this gadget!

 

Problem 1: With the configuration above the last step to formatting, writing DOS and an initialization step is where it's freezing for me. This is version 1.1 of SpartaDOS and if you know what happened to the FORMAT files in the 3.2 versions I'd like to know.

The format utility for versions 3.2 is called "XINIT.COM".

 

You can make a formatted disk bootable using the Xinit.com utility or, if you want to do it to a formatted disk later you can use the "BOOT" command from the command line.  Copy the .DOS file you want to be the boot version to the disk and then enter the command "BOOT D1:X32D.DOS", where D1: can be any valid drive number with the disk in it, and where X32D.DOS can be any valid spartados DOS version file.

 

Best,

 

Jeff