From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: CP/M Blocking and Deblocking Article-I.D.: ucb.1438 Posted: Mon Jun 28 04:14:01 1982 Received: Tue Jun 29 08:05:40 1982 >From POURNE@Mit-Mc Mon Jun 28 04:13:50 1982 Godbout/Compupro will shortly be supplying a new BIOS with their equipment. This was written by Tony Pietsch, and features provisions for M (warp) drive, m (mini-floppy), as well as driving the Godbout controller faster than anything we've seen yet. Alas they are removing Tony's builtin provision for the N Drive (semi-disk) on the , sigh, reasonable grounds that they're not responsible for providing software to support another company's competing products. If you have an older Compupro you should think about getting the new BIOS, which ought to be available in perhaps a month. One nice feature: if you try to access a drive with no disk in it, it says "Load the Drive, Stupid" instead of BDOS error... This impressed a couple of Compupro engineers no end last night when they were over for a couple of hours and I demonstrated the BIOS. As always you get the source code. (NOTE: I have no commercial interest in this at all; but I have seen a number of people go slightly mad because they don't have the BIOS source, or can't do certain things, or get BDOS errors when they shouldn't, and I conclude that one reason I like my computer so much is that I seem to have awfully good software; better than I knew until I saw what others put up with...) JEP