FDC cookie

[exxos]

Does anyone know how to set the FDC cookie to enable HD format option in GEM ? There's a hint there was a FDC.PRG to do it but Google doesn't find much at all relating to it

[pixelpusher]

Does anyone know how to set the FDC cookie to enable HD format option in GEM ? There's a hint there was a FDC.PRG to do it but Google doesn't find much at all relating to it

Search for HDCOOKIE.PRG + ATARI via Google. Documentation for the _FDC content can be found here: http://toshyp.atari.org/en/003007.html

[exxos]

@Icky http://www.wrsonline.de/software/HDCOOKIE.LZH. ?

[Icky]

Thanks - I also found a few other PRGs on the Floppy Shop 5592 disk that allows me to play around with other cookies

Their version is HD_FDC.PRG - https://www.planetemu.net/rom/atari-st- ... floppyshop

[exxos]

Do any of them give you the HD format option in 206 tho ?

[pixelpusher]

Do any of them give you the HD format option in 206 tho ?

They create the _FDC cookie and as "_" is used for OS cookies, the OS uses this and adds the HD option in the format dialog, if the _FDC content is set properly. Check with a debugger/monitor program, if necessary ...

[Icky]

H4 with the 1.44HD GAL running Flashy Clock V3 to get TOS206 and HD_FDC.PRG to set the _FDC cookie.

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[PhilC]

That's something else to cross off the list then, nice one

[exxos]

[exxos]

@Icky Tried his flashy board with the same register patches and it does not work for him either, so I guess the good news is my board seems to be working correctly.

So it seems just accessing that register is just not enough for some reason it could be that TOS206 is at some point checking for a STE machine before it starts checking other things

EDIT:
I tried scoping out that register to see if it was even being accessed, and it does not look like it , so anyone's guess to why this doesn't work then..