[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Aaron Wolfe]

BTW - Welcome and hope you have fun with OS9!

There is a lot of documentation available online, and I've tried to
gather it in an easy to use form.  Check out the OS-9 section here:

https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs

Especially "Mastering OS-9 on the Tandy Color Computer 3" (which Frank
from FARNA Systems graciously gave me permission to post there :)  and
"The complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 Level II", especially if you're
interested in Basic09.

-Aaron


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I've only slightly tinkered with OS-9 slightly over the years.  I
> usually only load it because an application or game requires it.  I'm trying
> to learn a bit more about it so I can make better use of it.
>
> Here's the issue I'm working on right now: trying to configure it to take
> advantage of the printer and floppy drive setup I have attached.  I have a
> FD-502 with dual 5.25 double-sided 360k drives with a modified RS-DOS EPROM
> that allows the top unit to be drives 0/1 and the bottom 2/3.  How do I
> configure OS-9 to take advantage of the other sides of the drives, either as
> /d2, /d3, etc. or by making /d0 and /d1 double-sided devices.   Also, a
> person on this list was gracious enough to sell me a serial-to-parallel
> converter that allows me to print to a old HP DeskJet 540 printer rather
> well.  I've coded some RS-DOS BASIC programs to work properly with it (i.e.
> setting 1200baud and CRLF) but is there a way to set such parameters in
> OS/9?  If memory serves, the printer is /P device, right?  I've seen a
> couple of OS-9 applications allow the setting of the baud rate inside the
> application setup, but not much other settings.   Only way I could get these
> to printt down a page instead of all text on the first line was to run a
> RS-DOS BASIC initialization program to initialize the printer and then go
> into the OS-9 apps and print.
>
>
>
>  I know there are more advanced things out there now for the CoCo.  I find
> the idea of using SD card for storage fascinating.  However, I got into the
> world of computers and programming on this very CoCo 2 when I was 14 and I'm
> trying to remain true to its original character.  Some of what I once had
> learned years ago I've forgotten and I'm slowly trying to relearn all I can
> and then some.
>
>
>
> P.S. I have the original OS-9 level 1 rev. 1.0.0.  Wish I could find a later
> revision.  I know the DeskMate diskette I have says level 1 rev. 2.0.0 but I
> think it's missing a lot of the OS-9 files.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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