ardent-blue
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Folks, some tidbits have arisen on the Cassette BASIC used on PS/2s, not much, but it makes me curious...
The early PS/2s, 8550-8580, use Cassette BIOS C1.0 [32KB in size], I DIMMly remember. The later PS/2s use Cassette BASIC C1.10 [32KB in size], but it is not easily accessible.
Cassette BASIC can interface to the first three parallel ports, but in a crude, one-way fashion. Probably using BIOS calls.
Can we use CBASIC to communicate with parallel-port connected storage? This storage would have to be at a low level, because you can't bit-bash drivers in at the command line to enable booting from it.
The early PS/2s, 8550-8580, use Cassette BIOS C1.0 [32KB in size], I DIMMly remember. The later PS/2s use Cassette BASIC C1.10 [32KB in size], but it is not easily accessible.
Cassette BASIC can interface to the first three parallel ports, but in a crude, one-way fashion. Probably using BIOS calls.
Can we use CBASIC to communicate with parallel-port connected storage? This storage would have to be at a low level, because you can't bit-bash drivers in at the command line to enable booting from it.