VIC-20 Disk Menu

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:50 pm

You are welcome! Datormuseum is just the Swedish word for "computer museum". In Swedish you build up new words all the time instead of writing them apart.

/Anders

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:14 pm

i also like the word 'dator' because it reminds me of the guy Dr. Dator, who used to host Dr. Who (well the Pertwee era) on TV Ontario, a long time ago.

I think he is a prof. at the uni. of hawaii now i think.

you guys have a cool word for computer, regardless.

chris

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:13 am

I used the prog. aid cart quite a lot when making this new version, so in a way, you helped in developing this version too!!! Thanks!

I just made another little program for you. Look in the cartridge thread:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =5904#5904

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:00 am

I have found a way to run 64HDD under ms-dos after all. I just boot from a Win ME start diskette and select minimal boot... And then call a "vic.bat" file on the C: drive. Saving and everything (except for long filenames) works from there (as long as I set the +p option correctly)...

But something else I found out, is that the extra delay I inserted after rename and delete only is needed when running under windows. So do you think that I should keep that? Removing it would free up 11 bytes and about 2 seconds of extra waiting after every delete or rename operation...

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:23 am

Well, decided to change that, so here is V19:
http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormuseum/menu19.zip

I didn't like the idea of waiting for an unnecessary delay after every file when deleting a couple of them...

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:53 am

Good news: I finally got the 64HDD Long Filenames working!!!

Bad News: When a filename is longer than 16 characters, 64HDD truncates it to 16 characters, which means that it's not found when you try to load it. I will start to work out a fix right now and then release a V20...

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:25 pm

Here is V20:
http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormuseum/menu20.zip

I'm glad I got LFN working so that I had a chance to catch that problem...

/Anders

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:16 am

My very own VIC-20 Disk Utility Cartridge arrived today!

Thank you so very much Leif!

Oh I can't wait to try it out!

I have to make a label for it though, I hope you don't mind, as I would like to snazz it up

Hopefully if I can get it done today, I can scan a pic of it.

Chris

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:41 am

Here is the label I made for it:

http://web.ncf.ca/ex809/cart.gif

chris

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:22 am

How does one correctly pronounce Leif? Is it like an american pronouncing "leaf"?

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:26 am

yep, like Leaf

chris

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:10 am

In North America anyway. Elsewhere it's pronounced more like "layfe".

Nice job Chris! Just hope you don't have to pull the EPROM out anytime

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:12 am

i am an end user, so will not be playing around with the innards of this cart.!

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:55 pm

I would definitely say Layf (ay as in May) if I met you. Maybe we should enjoy ourselves recording how we pronouce each other's names, and the one who gets the most correct wins something?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:00 am

Well, what do you know?! A new version!

B-Menu 22 - Delete Batch version
http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormuseum/bmenu22.zip

http://user.tninet.se/~pug510w/datormus ... enu.html#b

I got tired of deleting a file, wait for the deletion, wait for the directory to load, deleting another file, waiting for the directory to load, etc etc etc... So here it is - a special Batch Delete version. You press D on all files you want to delete (which marks them red). Then you press Shift-D to delete them all in one go (after an are-you-sure question). That's it. It also always starts up at the last page because I found that I almost always wanted the last files on the disk myself... Disadvantage: Uses a little more memory than V20, so don't expect to be able to list all 144 files on an unexpanded vic (unless the filenames are short).

/Anders