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| 1>Run the program on the ST. |
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2>The opening window of 800XLDJ. The window shows the menu, the 8 drives, format disk, and load disk icons, and a list of disk images loaded. Once a disk is formatted and named, one of the 8 drive icons can be dragged to the disk to "mount" it. You can drag an icon to another disk to "swap drives". Theoretically, by clicking one of the 8 drive icons to reverse it, it will be ignored by 800XLDJ, so the real drive can be used. |
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| 3>To make a new disk: pull down DISK in the menu and click on "New Disk". Then highlight the newly created disk. Now you can either set its format or name. You must also select "SAVE AS" to save the current disk information(you must use the extender selected in OPTION, i.e. ".DI"), or "SAVE" when its been changed. "Select All" does that, so you can Save all disks, or Remove all disks for a new config. |
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4>Under DISK in the menu, select format, the option dialog appears. SD is single sided single dens, ED is 1050 format, DD is single sided but dbl dens, QD is one of those misused names, but means dbl sided and dbl dens. You can also manually set up other sizes. MYDOS will allow a disk setup for 77 tracks, 26 sectors/track, 256 bytes/sector, 2 heads(sides) for about 1 meg of disk space. |
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| 5>Dbl clicking the disk name with the right button reveals its directory and size. Note that all disks can and should be reformatted under MYDOS(or DOS you'll be using) if its NOT going to be a special boot disk(for DOS 2.0 or other and SD). Note that the directory is not always accurate. |
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6>Here you can make adjustments to various items. |
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| 7>Once you get your disks created, and have only the ones you want in the default list, make sure to save the configuration. You can create other configs as needed and load as needed. |
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8>Here is a list of images I've created. To get a non-protected boot disk into 800XLDJ: first create a disk of the appropriate format and name it/save it. Then, depending on the disk, format it under DOS, then use DOS "J" to duplicate it. Or, with a disk such as Paperclip, once booted for real, switch D1 to a disk image, then use PC's save command to write itself out. |
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The first disk you will want to create and install is a DOS boot disk. Just create one in the largest size your drive will boot from, and make it drive 1. Boot to DOS with the A8, swap to the V~S connection, and format the disk from DOS, then write DOS files to it. You can test this by rebooting the A8. It will be much faster. The Virtual hard disk is perplexing. All you can do is select a subdirectory for the vhd to be in. But every attempt to make it useable results in an error. So there is no way to transfer files to/from it and disk images within the program. And if its to be used by DOS, which does all of its work reading and writing sectors, where is the image file? Maybe this feature just didn't get finished. |
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