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
in 1991.

Why Messy SID 3 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. Whereas Jeff Tullin's disk 
on which this beast was formed, gave all the emphasis to the power of the 
Sid program and it's little quirk's!

I have set this disc up so that you get the full shilling out of SID2,
and still have access to MSDOS drives with Messydos.

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 SID2 selector boxes.
The other functions assigned to the SID2 buttons should all work as you
would expect. Most of the programs they call have been put into the C
directory.

The help file for Sid2 isn't included since it was a bit big, to get it just
send off for Sid2!

Enjoy.

Patrick Downes (June 1994)


NB. You may or may not realise but most of this disk was put together by a
guy called Jeff Tullin. He made this disk what it is today. All I have done
is update Sid to Sid 2 (Personal) and have also changed the programs used so
that they are the latest versions. Workbench 3 users don't need this disk
since CrossDos was included with WB3, although even they might find this disk
to be of some use (Archiving / Viewing etc!)

Sid 2 is a shareware product and I hope you support it. All information about
it is in the doc directory!

PS. I think Sid 2 may be bugged on WB3 machines since it seems to wipe out
my WB menus apart from the Workbench one - has anyone else had this problem?

PPS. So there is another Version of this disk flying about. Only because
this disk wasn't released when it should've. It was due for release in
February but cause I have other things to do - it's late. This is THE
DEFINITE VERSION of the type of the File Transfer disk - So There.