[Coco] OS9/68K on Atari SatanDisk

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 05 August 2013 00:22:33 Joel Ewy did opine:

> On 07/01/2013 11:54 PM, Bob Devries wrote:
> > There is(was) an Amiga port by an Australian called Digby Tarvin. It
> > was seriously expensive, and had a number of limitations, one of which
> > was no support for a hard disk drive, and no graphics support (fairly
> > usual for early OS9/68000 ports).
> > 
> > I now have OS9/68000 booting from the SatanDisk. All I had to do was
> > change the DMA port number in the BOOTOSK.PRG config page to 2
> > (default was 0).
> > 
> > BEWDY!!!
> 
> Hey Bob,
> 
> I was late to this conversation, but it reminds me that to this day I am
> unaware of any OS-9/68K implementation that runs in emulation on a
> modern PC, with the exception of some fairly limited CD-i emulators.
> Much as I like keeping the real hardware running, I do see an important
> role for emulation in the preservation of old computers, and this seems
> like a pretty big gap.  Some day I'll run out of SCSI hard drives to
> keep feeding my MM/1.
> 
Google for "UAE", Universal Amiga Emulator.  It runs on a linux box, with 
some glitches in the mouse translation.

> I did once try running the Atari OS-9 disk images on a number of Atari
> emulators with little success.  I'm not sure what it needs that it's not
> getting in the emulators.  This has been 2 or 3 years back, so maybe the
> emulation has improved, or maybe there's an emulator I'm not aware of
> that does work.
> 
> I recently came across a disk image that purports to be OS-9 for a
> Japanese computer called the X68000 (if I've got that right).  There are
> emulators available for it, but I have yet to get around to installing
> one and checking it out, but there might be some promise there.
> 
> Are you aware of anything I've missed?
> 
> JCE
> 
> > Regards, Bob Devries
> > Dalby, QLD, Australia
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: <iggybeans at comcast.net>
> > To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:36 AM
> > Subject: [Coco] OS9/68K on Atari SatanDisk
> > 
> >> Very cool.
> >> I've been wanting to put together a 68K system since I worked for Ed
> >> Gressick (back then Ed didn't pay me enough to afford one of our own
> >> products).
> >> An Atari ST doesn't have the 68020 our System V did, but it would do
> >> nicely.
> >> You know what would be even better?
> >> If we could hack this to run on an Amiga.
> >> 
> >> BTW - I offered the Teac floppy to Steve (at what I thought was a
> >> good price for a 360K hh drive).
> >> If he doesn't want it I'll re-post.
> 
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