macsonny Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Hi All, I’m waiting on a few Indus GT drives to arrive. Fingers cross they get in soon. I was wondering if a “Happy” type enhancement was ever done for the Indus drives? I know there are a few different ROMs around (I’ve burn them to test when the drives arrive) but not sure if anything was done to give more functionality like the Happy upgrades do for the 1050 drives. Anyone know if anything existed for the Indus drives? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Happy added double density and High speed and software copying abilities to 1050s. Indus already has all of that except the software copy. It can however be upgraded with CP/M. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Sorry to say Happy Computing never made their copying hardware/software for Indus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) Hello guys 15 minutes ago, videofx said: Sorry to say Happy Computing never made their copying hardware/software for Indus That doesn't mean that it couldn't still be done. Somebody "just" has to write the software. With the RAMcharger board, it has more memory than the Happy 1050 ever had. Sincerely Mathy Edited February 27, 2023 by Mathy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 7 hours ago, videofx said: Sorry to say Happy Computing never made their copying hardware/software for Indus Porting the Happy software to work on the Indus GT would have reduced potential sales of the Happy 1050 upgrade. It should be possible but there is the issue that the drives use different CPUs, Happy 1050=6502B/Indus GT=Z80. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 The Indus is a fine drive in its own right, with some unique capabilities, but there was only one Happy. The guys who wrote the 810 Archiver and then Bob Puff who wrote the Super Archiver certainly showed that it's possible to recreate something similar. As @Mathy said, someone "just" needs to write the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) good thing the iNdus can boot load a disk and reprogram itself to act like other drives point in case, US Doubler Mode emulation disk. ever wonder what else could be done? Edited February 27, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 6 hours ago, BillC said: Porting the Happy software to work on the Indus GT would have reduced potential sales of the Happy 1050 upgrade. It should be possible but there is the issue that the drives use different CPUs, Happy 1050=6502B/Indus GT=Z80. Given the huge amount of RAM a RAMCharger offers it might be possible to do a rather rough conversion (substituting Macros for Z80 opcodes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said: good thing the iNdus can boot load a disk and reprogram itself to act like other drives point in case, US Doubler Mode emulation disk. ever wonder what else could be done? Could you explain that a bit more? US Doubler mode needs a new rom, doesn't it? By @MrMartian? I haven't heard of it being loaded by disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) yes loaded by disk and is on the forum. @Larry, here ltgtfy start here, and search for the finished and best version, sources are on some repository in the thread too. Edited February 27, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 Thanks. That is quite clever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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