[Coco] Microware OS-9 for x86

Christian Lesage hyperfrog at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 13:49:27 EDT 2010


I am "hyperfrog" on CoCo3.com. If anyone needs help to get OS9Exec 
running on his PC, I could help. The documentation is sparse, and I 
spent several hours before I could get a working system.


> Bill, the following was posted to my query on CoCo3.com by hyperfrog:
> "I don't know for OS-9000, but I know how to run OS-9/68k on your PC. 
> There's an emulator (OS9Exec) that allows you to do that. It shares 
> the file system with the host OS (Windows, Mac OS X, or Mac OS 9), 
> which is nice. You have OS-9 running in a command prompt window. Note 
> that you'll need a copy of OS-9/68k. After several hours of 
> struggling, I managed to get it work with files from the following 
> disk image :
>
> ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/OS9_68K/CDi/Microware%20CDi.dsk.zip
>
> Not a real OS, but nice to mess around with.
>
> Christian"
>



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