Xenosoft? Re: Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 11:33:57 2002

> >XenoCopy will access through the BIOS, with up to four floppies,
> >regardless of whether MS-DOS can see or use those floppies, or what
> >letters MS-DOS might choose to assign to them.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
> Fred, You've mentioned Xenosoft several times. How about telling us more
> about it, such as what formats it supports, how much it costs and wheather
> it supports the Compaticards?

Unfortunately, my health has reached a point where I have had to recently
discontinued marketing, although I might make an exception for you. I am
no longer able to provide the level of support that is called for. And
I'm no longer adding new formats nor even making bug fixes.
It's heartbreaking, as there is so much more that should be done, and many
hundreds of formats that should get added in. For example, last week I
found that some of the AT&T word processing formats, that are purportedly
almost an MS-DOS format, misuse the attribute byte and many files will be
ignored since they are explicitly marked on the disk as being volume
labels.

[NOTE to vultures: my collection of alien disks is willed to Don Maslin
(but I don't plan to die for another decade)]

A list of formats (>400) is at:
http://www.xenosoft.com/fmts.html

It used to sell for $79.95 (+S/H).

Upgrades from previous versions (even illegal copies that Vertex
distributed) were $20 (+S/H), but free to members of this list.

It works as a stand-alone program, NOT as a device driver. While a device
driver will provide transparency to users ("it turns the disk drive into a
Morrow drive"), the driver model severely limits what types of file
systems can be done.

It will certainly work with a Compaticard, but does not support alternate
addressing of the Compaticard, although that could be handled by a BIOS
pathc.

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Fred Cisin                      cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft                        http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236                     (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
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Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 11:33:57 GMT

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