1 Topic by anihirash

  • anihirash
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Topic: esxDos detection

Is there safe way to detect is esxDos present on machine or not?

I'm talking about multiloaders when you have one code for several versions of demo/application.

For example, esxDos present - read via it from folder, if not - trying detect TRDOS - read from floppy(in success way) or tape.

2 Reply by aowen

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Re: esxDos detection

anihirash wrote:

Is there safe way to detect is esxDos present on machine or not?

I'm talking about multiloaders when you have one code for several versions of demo/application.

For example, esxDos present - read via it from folder, if not - trying detect TRDOS - read from floppy(in success way) or tape.

It's probably better to build a dedicated esxDOS target. If you use the .RUN command, you can build it as an app.

But to answer your question, hack the error handler and then issue a hook code. If you get an expected response it's esxDOS, if not, it's not.

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