[Coco] SWTPCEmu in Wine (was: Re: SysCall source listing (and OS-9 source code find))

[Joel Ewy]

On 11/29/2013 08:27 PM, mike delyea wrote:
> Interesting,  is there an OS-9 for it?
>
Yeah, the one that comes with the emulator.  The thing is, the SWTPC CPU 
board has a DAT and is capable of addressing at least 768K of RAM (maybe 
2M?) in 2K blocks, so it should be able to run Level II. In fact, 
UniFLEX uses the DAT.  But I have not found anything I can identify as a 
Level II disk image for the SWTPC.  So the question I have is how much 
effort would it take for NitrOS-9 be backported to the STWPC, and what 
would need to be changed to get it to work with 2K blocks instead of the 
CoCo3's 8K blocks?  I assume I could use the SWTPC drivers unmodified 
(assuming I'm sticking with the 6809 CPU and software), so what would 
have to be modified to adapt to the SWTPC DAT?

At the moment it's just academic, since the SWTPC equipment I have in my 
possession doesn't have practical memory boards that exceed 64K and were 
being finicky last time I tried to work on them.  So first I just need 
to get Level I to boot.  Then maybe I can fabricate a memory board with 
modern SRAM chips that would be useful for Level II.

JCE
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/2013 08:01 PM, mike delyea wrote:
>>
>>> I remember seeing the SWTPC advertised in Rainbow I think.  I vaguely
>>> remember seeing a squarish box with 6 or 8 slots occupied by various
>>> daughtercards of unknown ability and thinking "Man, that looks cool, and
>>> so
>>> damn hi-tech".  I remember lusting after one but alas, just bought a house
>>> and was promptly divorced by cheating wife (sigh).  Anyway, I thought it
>>> would be cool to see one operate, either on youtube or by downloading and
>>> running an emulator myself.  Frankly, I'd forgotten about til I saw your
>>> post.
>>>
>> This isn't YouTube, but it might give you something to chew on for a while:
>> http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/category/swtpc/
>> I'll think about doing a video of the emulator, but I can't tonight.
>>
>> JCE
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   I did two things that got it going. First, I downloaded the zip with the
>>>> .exe in it and copied that to the folder for swtp. Next, I l loaded one
>>>> of
>>>> the pre-saved config files, and that made it work. I will post tomorrow
>>>> with the actual file names. I am away from the computer for the night.
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>    On Nov 29, 2013 8:10 PM, "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   FWIW, I got SWTPCEmu working in Wine again, this time under XUbuntu
>>>> 13.10,
>>>>
>>>>> Wine 1.4.1 from the repo.  For whatever reason swtpcemu.exe doesn't get
>>>>> installed when you run setup.exe.  So I copied it from
>>>>>
>>>> SWTPCemuMinimal.zip
>>>>
>>>>> into ~.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Evenson Consulting Services/SWTPCemu/.
>>>>>    Then it worked.
>>>>>
>>>>> JCE
>>>>>
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