[Coco] ack!

Tue Jun 4 19:10:47 EDT 2013

That disk is set up to work with a SCSI HD. It uses SCSISYS as the driver. 
You *should* be able to replace that driver with EMUDSK (and the 
descriptors, too) and it should work on VCC & MESS.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!

>
> Bob, that's definately the Level 3 disk.
> But... It will not boot on VCC or MESS. It may boot on a real Coco. Mine 
> is down so I cant test it.
>
> To those asking... No, it doesn't support DW. If you read Alan's docs, (in 
> the level 3 folder in the repo), you'll see why. Also, if this is Alan's 
> build, it's Nitros9 L2 v1.22m and that was waaaaay before DW was 
> supported. And no... throwing in the newer modules will not work.
>
> Also, Bob's disk is DSDD 80trk with DNS=3. If you have DNS set to 1 it 
> will not read.
> Also according to Alan's notes, once booted, it CANNOT be cobbled. You 
> MUST build it from scratch (using Nitros9 L2 v 1.22n) and then, ONLY 
> according to Alan's boot order. Otherwise this will not boot in any shape 
> or form. I played with this, making boots for about a year and it's more 
> tempermental than any OS9 boot system I've worked with.
>
> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 5:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've placed this on my dropbox account.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9ia3b1zi1zvzgo/OS9L3.os9
>
> All I can say is... It works for me!
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 7:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
>
>
>> Sure we do :)
>>
>> thxs
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just to throw a spanner in the works....
>>>
>>> I have here a NitrOS9 Level 3 disk which boots fine!
>>>
>>> If anyone wants an image file, I'm happy to make one.
>>>
>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 12:11 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On the Nitros9 Level 3 build.
>>>> First, did anyone read Alan DeKok's doc and readme?
>>>> This level is not going to boot properly when built until the issue of
>>>> IOMan, Krn, clock and possibly krnp2 is resolved.
>>>> His notes clearly state that these modules have to be modified to point
>>>> to the "nitros9" module before anything is initialized. This module
>>>> (nitros9) moves all modules (rbf & scf) into their proper memory spaces
>>>> which is the whole reason for the new boot process.
>>>> The original "modified" modules are in the maltedmedia archives (I
>>>> think)
>>>> or I have them if someone wants them. These need to be disassembled and
>>>> brought up to date unless someone actually has the sources. They were
>>>> originally built for NitrOS-9 Level 2 6309 ver 1.22m and are labeled
>>>> "ioman.l3", "clock.l3.soft.60hz", os9p1.l3" and "os9p2.122m". The "new"
>>>> Level 3 modules are "nitros9" and "_end". The sources to the last 2 are
>>>> in
>>>> the Level 3 folder under "Modules" in the repo.
>>>> Alan states in his doc that various clocks were available for download,
>>>> but those downloads are long gone. If anyone has builds of these clock
>>>> modules, they need to be put into the archives.
>>>> At one time I had a bootable disk running but was using Jeff's emulator
>>>> and it was all a little flakey which the emulator itself was a litte
>>>> flakey
>>>> so it was not a good test platform. Alan states in the doc that there
>>>> were
>>>> several systems (10+) running beta Level 3 builds for almost a year. 
>>>> One
>>>> was running a BBS that had run for 2 months without a reboot. He's said
>>>> it
>>>> seemed to be stable.
>>>>
>>>> To get this going, ioman.l3, os9p1.l3, and clock.l3.soft.60hz need to 
>>>> be
>>>> disassembled and ioman, krn & clock need to be examined and patched to
>>>> reflect what was done to those v 1.22m modules as the newer modules 
>>>> have
>>>> been changed greatly since then.
>>>>
>>>> Bill Pierce
>>>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/**dabarnstudio/<https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/>
>>>> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
>>>> http://www.**colorcomputerarchive.com/<http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/>
>>>> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>>>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/**index.php/Main_Page<http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
>>>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
>>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 7:47 am
>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Gene (and all):
>>>>>
>>>>> I have revision:
>>>>>
>>>>> HAWKSoft(chrish)$ hg log | more
>>>>> changeset:   2829:ed9a4cb85fb3
>>>>> branch:      lwtools-port
>>>>> tag:         tip
>>>>> user:        boisy
>>>>> date:        Sun Jun 02 15:30:19 2013 -0500
>>>>> summary:     Fixed makefiles and defsfile for level 3
>>>>>
>>>>> Until there is a makefile in
>>>>> $(NITROS9DIR)/level3, level3 will not compile.
>>>>> Copying the $(NITROS9DIR)/level2/makefile there might work. (I've
>>>>> got to get to work, so I don't have time right now.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That will be the least of your issues getting it to build.  Trust me, I
>>>> spent several hours on it before Boisy made his announcement about a
>>>> fix.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
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