Falcon CD-ROM Treiberpaket

INSTRUCTIONS

Finally it's here, the long awaited Falcon CD ROM driver package.

Contents of the archive:

	- Metados 2.3
	- FALCON.BOS from Peter Hilbring
	- SCSI_DRV.PRG from Peter Hilbring
	- CD-ENV.TTP von Peter Hilbring

Short description of my files:

- FALCON.BOS
  This is a Metados driver, it should run on all Ataris. Just replace the 
  CDARGEN.BOS driver (included in the Metados package). This can be done in 
  two ways:
    1. Rename FALCON.BOS to CDARGEN.BOS
    2. Change the driver entry in Metados's CONFIG.SYS file
  Note that SCSI devices have the same number as on TT. SCSI 0 is device 8, 
  SCSI 1 is device 9 and so on. Unfortunately the driver doesn't work 
  correctly under MultiTOS. Programs can't be started from CD and text 
  files can't be displayed on the desktop. Copying files from CD to hard 
  disk works, though. The problems mentioned above appear only under 
  MiNT>1.04. The CDROM.XFS has similar problems.
  The driver reports the following boot message:
  "CDAR ASCI TT/F030 SCSI BOS v3.00 (p) Peter Hilbring"

- SCSI_DRV.PRG
  This is a low-level SCSI driver which is running on Falcon and on TT. It 
  installs a cookie S_DR pointing to a table which contains the start 
  addresses of read and write routines. It's quite simple then to write 
  SCSI programs like an audio CD player, because you don't have to handle 
  the interface programming. The driver has to be copied in the AUTO folder 
  and runs on both TOS and MultiTOS. Its version number is 0.3.

- CD-ENV.TTP
  A sample application for my SCSI driver. This program reads sectors from 
  SCSI devices (CD ROM also) and displays them on screen. In addition, it 
  can play audio CDs. Since it's only a test, it doesn't run under GEM. 
  Just run CD-ENV.TTP without parameters to get a short description. Of 
  course this program runs on both TOS and MultiTOS.