[Coco] SysCall source listing (and OS-9 source code find)
Bill Pierce
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Fri Nov 29 17:42:21 EST 2013
Wayne,
I found if you load the swtpc disks into DW4 then read them from nitros9, they read fine. dw4 doesn't care that they are 16 sectors/track and 512byte sectors. It just reads them. I've been copying the files to vhd from the disks. But there are 2 or 3 disks in the OS9_6809 dir that are Flex disks and don't seem to read. Also, I found a couple of corrupt files (bad header).
Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 5:10 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] SysCall source listing (and OS-9 source code find)
I downloaded the Full Kit version, and ran the Setup.exe that it contained.
It installed the emulator, but the emulator won't run any emulation for
OS-9. It reports an error trying to read the rom image. Looking in it's rom
images folder, there is no rom image for OS-9, but there is one rom image
for unibug, named UNIBUG.BIN, and another one named UOS_35_UNIFLEX.BIN.
There are many other files in this folder, but none with a .rom extension.
I tried putting a copy of the coco.rom image from MESS, but apparently this
emulator does not know how to identify the rom.
Wimgtool (from MESS) and EmuDisk both report unknown format errors, so I
have no way to look at the DSK images that came with this emulator.
Wayne
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am downloading the archive as I type this. I will be looking more
> closely at it soon, but it's already getting too dark in here, so it's
> almost time for me to go.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. :)
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/27/2013 11:49 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/27/2013 10:07 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please do that, Joel. It will help to answer the question.
>>>>
>>> Here's what I've found. I took another look at all the OS-9 disks that
>>> come with the SWTPC emulator using Toolshed and found no instance of
>>> SysCall, nor did I see a mention of it in a PDF of a Microware BASIC09
>>> manual from 1984 that was supposed to have come with a GIMIX computer.
>>>
>>> I did find among the SWTPC emulator disk images some interesting files
>>> that appear to be commented original Microware source code for os9p1,
>>> os9p2, sysgo, Clock, and several utilities. If you want to take a look at
>>> this, it is in SJT002.DSK, which can be found here:http://www.evenson-
>>> consulting.com/swtpc/Downloads.htm in the "Full Kit". It is a Windows
>>> executable that will extract and install under Wine. I think I've had it
>>> running under Wine before, but I have since upgraded to Xubuntu 13.10
>>> (can't stand Unity Desktop) and need to do something (possibly install .net
>>> or Mono or something) to get the emulator to run.
>>>
>>> JCE
>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>> Here's a note included with the OS-9 source files:
>> OS-9 SOURCE FILE INFORMATION
>>
>>
>> Description of the source
>>
>> 1 - The "Kernal" is composed of two parts. OS9P1 is the source
>> for the "P1" ROM which goes at $F800. OS9P2 contains the rest of
>> the OS-9 Kernal and the INIT module. The OS9P2 and INIT modules
>> go in the "P2" ROM along with the BOOT module. You will find
>> source to a BOOT module for either the specified disk controller
>> or a representative sample.
>>
>>
>> 2 - There are three device drivers included. "Acia" is the
>> MC6850 acia device driver. "Pia" is the MC6821(20) pia device
>> driver. The Acia and Pia drivers are "SCF" (sequential character
>> file) type device drivers. Then there is a DRVR (disk driver)
>> for either the specified controller or a representative sample.
>> The disk driver is an "RBF" (random block file ) type device
>> driver.
>>
>>
>> 3 - There are several device descriptors included. "Term", "T1"
>> and "P1" are acia type device descriptors. The first two are for
>> terminals and the other is for a serial printer. "P" is a pia
>> type device descriptor for a parallel printer.
>>
>>
>> 4 - The "Shell" is source for the "command interpreter". Our
>> experience has shown that changes to shell can often cause
>> seemingly unrelated problems which are really shell problems.
>> Therefore be careful if you modify this source.
>>
>>
>> 5 - The "Sysdefs.sys" file is used to define the particular
>> system for which this source was created. It should be moved to
>> your DEFS directory. It is used by many of the source files to
>> define changeable configurations for different systems. It is the
>> user's responsibility to check that the sysdefs match what is
>> currently needed for his system and make any required changes.
>> The defsfile is a convenient file for "using" all the different
>> OS-9 definitions files.
>>
>>
>> 6 - In addition there is an assortment of example utilities
>> which will give you a good look at how to use OS-9 in assembly
>> language programs. Comments on several of these: You may notice
>> a similarity between Copy, List, and Merge. This is a result of
>> OS-9's unified I/O handling. Note that SYSGO is the system
>> starter module which sets up the default directories and keeps
>> the system going even if shell "dies". Details on SYSGO can be
>> found in the System Programmers Manual.
>>
>>
>> 7 - NOTE: Not all of the utilities are included in the source
>> package. The intent in sending out any of them is to guide users
>> into good programming techniques. Those sent are representative
>> of the utilities done by Microware.
>>
>>
>> (C) 1980 Microware Systems Corporation and Motorola Inc.
>>
>> Anybody here ever seen this before?
>>
>> JCE
>>
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