Re: [atari8-devel] Making bootable disks with Franny?

[Rafal C. <bo...@in...>]

Hi,

W dniu 25.01.2014 09:09, Bill Kendrick pisze:
> Hey there, I'm tinkering with cc65 for Atari 8-bit dev on my Linux box,
> and was please to discover Franny a while back.  At this point, I'm using
> a horrible hack to turn a freshly-generated disk image into something
> that can boot (using MyDOS); basically, hacking the first 3 sectors from
> a bootable MyDOS disk into the freshly-generated ATR (after copying
> DOS.SYS & DUP.SYS to it, using Franny).
>
> Any chance you'd be willing to add an honest-to-goodness bootable-file
> option to Franny?  (So I could, say, "copy DOS.SYS to the ATR, and make it
> bootable")
Yes, there is a chance to implement that feature :). It's hard to say when
it will be implemented.
> Or does that even make sense?  I'm not really an expert (far from it!)
> when it comes to the way DOS works on an Atari.  I'm just a (long-time)
> end-user ;)   (Lots of BASIC, TurboBASIC XL, and some Action! under my
> belt, but little else!)
I think, that this make sense. I also use bootable files/images in my a8
development.
>
> Thanks in advance, and thanks for a useful tool!  Yay for cross-compiling
> toolchains! ;)
>
Cool to hear, that somebody use this tool :).

grtx,
bob_er