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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Development => Topic started by: Jose on April 09, 2008, 09:56:27 PM
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For the 1st time I've witnessed what seem to be serious bugs on CrossDOS (latest version). Some files are simply not saved, and 2 disks formated at 1.44Mb (the HD floppy on my A4000D ;)) either didn't finish formating or were simply unsable.
Which one of MessyDOS / FAT95 would you guys advice on speed/features/CPU overhead.
BTW, can't seem to be able to find any of them on Aminet ?!
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Ups, wrong forum, can't some mod move it to software....
Thx
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Jose wrote:
For the 1st time I've witnessed what seem to be serious bugs on CrossDOS (latest version). Some files are simply not saved, and 2 disks formated at 1.44Mb (the HD floppy on my A4000D ;)) either didn't finish formating or were simply unsable.
Which one of MessyDOS / FAT95 would you guys advice on speed/features/CPU overhead.
BTW, can't seem to be able to find any of them on Aminet ?!
I think the Author of MessyDos is active on aros-exec. maybe you ask there ?
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No prob, I'll wait till Aminet is up and runing well again. I still haven't decided yet on which one to choose, waiting for some advice / comparisons...
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Have you tried MultiDos (on Aminet)?
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@Tenacious
Nope, didn't knew about that one, is it good ? I've only used CrossDos till now.
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I've used it for years, beginning in my A500 days. I like how it mounts without an extra icon and the way it can be incorporated into a DirUtil. It reads dos disks well with no fuss at all. It's free, small and requires few resources.
It don't know if it includes text translators or supports long file names. I don't use these features. CrossDos probably includes a lot more stuff.
Try it out when Aminet comes back online.
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@Jose
Yeah? I've used CrossDos Gold v7.04 for years on my A4000/40 with HD disks and never had a problem.
Consultron's CrossDos is one of the only bits of software I actually bought (although thats probably not something to be proud of)
You sure your disks werent just buggered?
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@tenacious
Aminet is back and 1st thing I noticed is that MultiDos is way older than the others but very small code indeed. I think I'll give it a try with fat95.
@alexh
"Consultron's CrossDos is one of the only bits of software I actually bought (although thats probably not something to be proud of)"
Hell, why not ?:) I almost bought it too at the time. I'm gonna check out the floppies on a PC just to be sure. But they're Imation branded, so should last a bunch of years...
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@ Jose
Let me know how it turns out for you.
Sometimes, the oldest software are the programs with the smallest footprint.
Over the years, there were a number of excellent programs that went under the "popular" radar screen. MultiDos was one of those.
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Well, turned out the more problematic floppy formated well under Win2K but there was a big delay on some part.. I haven't done extensive tests so don't know anything for sure. Cross should display a message when it can't format a disk completely though, and it didn't, it simple stoped at some point... Plus, when I was backing up some sources some files on that floppy disk just didn't copy over, even though there was absolutely no message saying the copy couldn't be done...
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both doesn´t allow you to access partition for CBM bridgeboard