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- Why Messy SID?
-
- Well, Messydos,( whilst a brilliant piece of programming which lets you
- read and write to IBM discs in an Amiga drive), is damn hard to actually
- get off the original Fish disc, and on to your own in working order.
- I know. I tried. Hands up everyone else who failed?
- Turns out there are only three things you need to make it work.
- 1: A suitable mountlist in the DEVS folder. (Read the one on this disc)
- 2: Messy_filesystem
- 3: Messydisc.device
- They are all here, ready for your own use.
-
- SID is an indispensible utility for mucking around with Amiga discs.
-
-
- Putting the two together was a masterly idea, and Ferragamo did just that
- earlier this year (1991).
-
-
- Why Messy SID II then?
-
- Simple. Ferragamo spent so much time being nice to people, with loads of
- startup sequences, doc files, instructions etc, that many of the little
- utilities which make SID so useful were missed off, and thus the thing
- was that much less use than it might have been.
-
- I have set this disc up so that you get the full shilling out of SID,
- and still have access to MSDOS drives with Messydos.
-
- BUT!!!!
-
- Confession time- I had to leave off one or two doc files,most of the
- icon files and some other little bits and pieces.
- The important ones are all in the DOCS folder, which is where you should
- look for the addresses of the shareware authors whose work is enclosed.
- The messydos files are archived in the docs folder as src.lzh, as
- prepared by Ferragamo.
-
- On that subject- Messysid (the original) was designed as a Workbench disc,
- and the docs forbade anyone messing around with the disc.
- I have not. This disc houses different utilities for use by SID,and if,
- as I suspect, that still will upset someone- I apologise.
- This 'version' is primarily a CLI based enviroment for speed.
- Loadwb is still in the C folder, but crippled because there are no .info
- files around for it to display.
- You pays your money, you takes your choice...
-
- Also, the bulk of the utilities on the disc were assembled for the
- Workstation disc, in case they looked familiar. If that puts out anyone's
- nose, sorry to you too!
-
- Otherwise, if you just want to USE the stuff - its all here for you.
- Easy enough for the (near) beginner. Plenty of scope for the experts.
-
-
- Very quick instructions - after selecting which drive to use for MSDOS
- by the startup-selector, you can read or write to MSDOS discs in that
- drive by refering to it as MS0: or MS1: for drives 0 or 1 respectively.
- You can also read and write Amiga discs in the same drive by calling
- them DF0: or DF1: as normal in the SID selector boxes.
- The other functions assigned to the SID buttons should all work as you
- would expect. Most of the programs they call have been put into the C
- directory.
-
- Enjoy.
-
- Jeff Tullin August 1991.