ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2020 Entry 3rd December 2020: Post 1: Baybench 1.3 - Adding MultiDOS. Baybench 1.3 - Adding MultiDOS. Yesterday I showed you how to create your very own Wb1.3 disk from a fistful of old Amiga Computing disks. Today I go one step further and add not just the facility to read PC disks but also include a simple file management tool. All on the same disk. MultiDOS should not work with 1.3. That is what the guide tells me. However by simply copying the files over I was able to not only see PC disks but also format and copy files over to the PC. Next up I dug out a copy of Disk Master and simply added that to the same disk. It was necessary for me to edit the very first disk to enable me to install these two programs but it all worked. Here is how I did it. Please see earlier blog regarding MultiDOS on the Amiga. Baybench 1.3 - Adding MultiDOS. Arcadia from Amiga Computing with MultiDOS. The MultiDOS guide says that the software only works from WB2+. So technically I should not be seeing this drawer on my Workbench. To undertake this exercise I chose to use a second copy of my Baybench disk which I had already started to embellish. Note I had added DFace and changed the icons around. I later removed DFace to make space on the disk. I have already copied the files from my earlier PlusBench disk which included MultiDOS to all the respective folders. The File system to the L drawer and libraries to the Libs drawer. Plus the necessary files to the C drawer. I simply copied over all the files from the MultiDOS disk that related to the program and placed them in their drawers. Finally I acopied the mount-list from Devs. I then entered the command to mount the PC drives into the 1.3 system. Next I simply inserted my PCPlus2 disk from my 2.04 experiment and like magic the computer was viewing a PC disk. I was then able to simply copy files from and to the disk. OK time to see if Format works. And it did with no problems. The disk comes with the sexy MultiDOS icon. And there we have it. Let me now configure DOpus to see the MD0: and MD1: PC drives. Enter the configuration from the drop down menu above. Select drives. I am going to change DH0: to MD0: Click the spyglass and select MD0: from the list then type in MD0: under name and select colour for button. Now select the next button to change and hit the spyglass again. Select MD1: Again rename and pick a suitable colour Right is button colour and left font. The computer now selects DF1 as your MD1 drive. So I copied a few files to RAM off the PC disk. I then inserted the 'scuzz' disk and DOpus auto loaded that drive and I copied the files from RAM to the 'scuzz' disk. Note that the PC disk I am using is a HD PC disk with the top corner hole taped over. I then took the disk to my XP Windows PC and like magic it read the disk. Job done.

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Last updated 3rd December 2020

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