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Diffstat (limited to 'fenders.1')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. -.TH "FENDERS" 1 "2024-05-08" "0.2.1" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" +.TH "FENDERS" 1 "2024-05-09" "0.2.1" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" .SH NAME fenders \- Install Fenders 3-sector loader in boot sectors of an ATR image .\" RST source for fenders(1) man page. Convert with: @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Print this help message. DON\(aqT reboot (coldstart) the Atari if Reset is pressed. The default is to coldstart. .TP .B \-b -Create \fBinfile\fP as a blank ATR image and update it +Create \fBinfile\fP as a blank single\-density ATR image and update it in\-place. This option requires \fBaxe\fP to be present on \fIPATH\fP\&. May not be used when reading standard input. .TP @@ -145,18 +145,20 @@ When installing the boot loader on a double\-density disk, sector 720 is sector 720 is either unusable by DOS, or not used unless the disk is completely full, so this is less of a problem than you might think. .sp -\fBfenders\fP and the \fBfenders\fP boot\-loader code will work with DOS -2.5 "enhanced density" formatted floppies, but only partially: files -that use sectors above 720 will not appear in the menu (these are the -same files that DOS 2.5 lists with <> around the filename). -.sp -\fBfenders\fP only works on Atari DOS 2.x and compatible (MyDOS, DOS XL, et -al) single\-sided disk images, either single\-density (720 sectors, 90K), -double\-density (720 sectors, 180K), or "1050 enhanced" density (1040 -sectors, 130K, although 1050 enhanced density images must be in DOS 2.5 -format, \fInot\fP MyDOS, and see \fBLIMITATIONS\fP below). Other non\-standard DOS -formats such as SpartaDOS or Atari DOS 3.0 and 4.0 are not supported. -Atari DOS 1.0 may or may not work (untested). +\fBfenders\fP has better compatibility with DOS 2.5 than the original +Atari version. Any files occupying sectors >=720 (the ones with <> +around the name) have their directory status bytes adjusted to make +them look like regular DOS 2.0 files. This allows them to display and +load correctly. The original Atari Fenders installer doesn\(aqt do this, +but the \fBfenders\fP author wrote a BASIC program to do the job, ages +ago. +.sp +\fBfenders\fP only works on Atari DOS 2.x and compatible (MyDOS, DOS XL, +et al) single\-sided disk images, either single\-density (720 sectors, +90K), double\-density (720 sectors, 180K), or "1050 enhanced" density +(1040 sectors, 130K, although 1050 enhanced density images must be in +DOS 2.5 format, \fInot\fP MyDOS). Other incompatible DOS formats such as +SpartaDOS or Atari DOS 1.0/3.0/4.0 are not supported. .sp The \fBfenders\fP boot loader source code distributed with \fBfenders\fP is not the original source code (which has never been @@ -233,10 +235,6 @@ be used for file storage. No checking for non\-standard formats (SpartaDOS, DOS 3, MyDOS with subdirectories, dedicated bootdisks, etc) is done. .sp -If an "enhanced" 1050 density disk image has the bootloader installed, -it won\(aqt display the files using sectors above 720 (the ones which -would appear as \fI<filename.ext>\fP in the DOS 2.5 directory). -.sp Actually, the above limitations are a direct result of the fact that \fBfenders\fP deals with the disk image at the "sector" level, and contains no code that understands the files, directory, or VTOC on the image. |