Creating 16MB ATR images with BEWE DOS 1.30

[Steve Mynott]

Is this possible?

 

I can see how to do it for SpartaDOS and MyDOS at http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/ but not Bewe DOS?

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

 

the BeweDOS own Format.COM does only 360k. But you can use a "trick": format 16MB with SpartaDOS or a Sparta tool, then copy BeweDOS and Boot.COM onto that disk/image/partition with Menu.COM and make it bootable with Boot.COM. Tried it, works !

[_The Doctor__]

Yes sir been there done that!

[a8isa1]

As an aside, does anyone have a working image of Bewedos 1.30?

 

I thought I had but every ATR I have that has XBW130.DOS on it doesn't allow to write back to the disk/ATR

[_The Doctor__]

http://www.atari-central.de/floppyservice/floppy/download/dl_dos.htm

 

party on dudes and be excellent to one another.. lolzors!

 

http://atariwiki.strotmann.de/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=BEWE%20DOS%201.30%20Manual

Edited November 13, 2014 by _The Doctor__

[a8isa1]

_The Doctor__, thanks!

 

Turns out I've been making a silly mistake. COPY is an extrinsic command in BeweDOS. After making big ATRs I never put all the utilities on them or I put them in a place where they could not be found by the CLI.

[Steve Mynott]

So I used the Spartados command to format and transfered BeweDOS to it fine and the 16MB image boots fine under emulation.

 

But when I tried it with a SIO2SD it fails to boot.

 

Is there anything special I need to do with this device? Or does it not support such large ATR?

[_The Doctor__]

did you issue the boot BeweDos command after the transfer... that should bootstrap BeweDos and make things much happier.

[Steve Mynott]

The disk boots fine under emulation. The disk doesn't boot on a real Atari with SIO2SD

[_The Doctor__]

Did you try reducing sio to sd speed?

[a8isa1]

So I used the Spartados command to format and transfered BeweDOS to it fine and the 16MB image boots fine under emulation.

 

But when I tried it with a SIO2SD it fails to boot.

 

Is there anything special I need to do with this device? Or does it not support such large ATR?

Please post your ATR here.

 

-SteveS

[Steve Mynott]

To answer my own question. I was able to boot the 16MB image from the sio2sd.xex loader although it doesn't work booting directly!