[Coco] NitrOS-9 new snapshot build [WAS: Setting up the /IH descriptor]

[Bill Pierce]

Thanks Tormod, I'll check out what I can. I can check:
Nitros9 L2 6809
Nitros9 L2 6309
Nitros9 L2 Becker 6809
Nitros9 L2 Becker 6309
Nitros9 L1 Coco 2 6809
Nitros9 L1 Coco 2 Becker 6809
Nitros9 L1 Coco 1 6809
Nitros9 L1 Coco 1 DW 6809
All Game/Program disks configured for the above

That's about my limt of capabilities. I'll be using Vcc for Coco 3 (my Coco 3 is down), XRoar for Coco 2 and
a real Coco 1
When I get a keyboard for my Coco 3 I can check Nitros9 L2 DW 6809

I do have a couple of questions regarding the Repo though...
Why are there no 35trk SSDD disks? Some people want to copy these images to real disks and also to HDBDOS/RGBDOS partitions and backup will (for the most part) only work on disks of the same size.
I have seen several complaints/questions on this.

The same goes for EmuDsk boots. 50% of the people still working with the Coco use an emulator and there are no emulator disks with the EmuDsk drivers to access the VHD (Mess & Vcc). They are in the repo but not being built.

Another thing is the Ramdisk. The KD ramdisk included in the repo is a joke. It crashes 50% of the time as it does something odd to memory and my larger programs will crash it.
Gene Heskett's "MyRam" needs to replace it. Gene's ramdisk allows automatic inizing and formatting, can be resized on the fly by deinizing and changing the sector count with "dmode sct=xxx" then using it (auto format remember?). It also works with any memory size up to 2meg. I've used this ramdisk for a year now for C compiling, Ultimuse 3, clipboard in MV Canvas and ED3.1, and it's rock solid. I use anywhere from a 96k to a 720k size with no problems. Gene's "MyRam" is in the repo but not being built. It's standard OS-9 asm in 6809 and 6309 versions, so there shouldn't be a problem adding it. It "just works".

I'll let ya know if I run into any problems,

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 6:47 pm
Subject: [Coco] NitrOS-9 new snapshot build [WAS: Setting up the /IH descriptor]


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> No NitrOS-9 nightly builds that I know of. The last one done was by David Ladd 
back in Januaury.
>  We need someone with access that can successfully build the repo that also 
knows the cmds for the nightly build (something about a "burst" cmd?), who can 
take the time to at least do a weekly build. Even a monthly build would be 
better than what we have now.
> The NitrOS-9 repo hasn't been built regularly for over 4 or 5 years. It's only 
being done when someone finally get's sick of getting bad disks.

I built and uploaded a snapshot now: http://www.nitros9.org/latest/

If anything is terribly broken, David's older build is still available
under http://www.nitros9.org/latest-201301/ but please report any bugs
or problems! Reports might get lost here on the list so
http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/bugs/ is the preferred venue.

> I would do it but my cygwin errors, saying it's out of resources (on a 4 gig 
AMD quadcore??). Also, I don't have upload access (and do not want it for now).

For information, building took 6 minutes on a Pentium M1.6 with 2GB
RAM. Note to self and fixme: On a clean hg pull do "mkdir dsks"
otherwise os9 dies in infinite recursion and buffer overflow.

Regards,
Tormod

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