[Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

[Aaron Wolfe]

So, what I've seen as I watched this thread is Boisy says it's just
too much work maintaining all these disk images (and it is, I have
seen the mountains of makefiles with my own eyes).  He needs to reduce
the number of images that he personally has been doing the work of
maintaining for all of our benefit.

Within 10 posts or some, someone just has to have every single
variation there is.  Can we reconsider this?  It doesn't solve the
problem at hand.  It's too much work for one guy to support every
possible configuration.

I see some possible solutions:

1.  Additional people skilled with *nix makefiles and OS-9 get
involved to help maintain all these disks
2.  We support only the most common configurations and provide
instructions on how those with other systems can adapt the images to
their systems.
3.  We leave it to each user to get into the CVS and make their own
disks (it's really not that hard guys).

Other solutions? Saying "I want this version" doesn't solve the problem at hand.

-Aaron





On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:31:50PM -0400, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>> And how difficult will it be for those with floppies to pull the
>> individual games out of the emulator "disk?"
>
> As with the suggestion about the 80track images for the OS, please
> preserve the capability to build "hardware compatible" disk images
> in the build scripts. :-)
>
> John
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