[Coco] Really not understanding how to use DW

[Aaron Wolfe]

I didn't mean to cast any "blame" when I said that page is messed
up... heck, I wrote the script that is incorrectly labeling those
disks :)

In general, "nightly" builds are expected to break or be works in
progress.  Normally a project would never direct the "general public"
to an automated binary build and instead point them at a stable
release.  Only devs and users who understand things will break and
want to help find bugs or test very new features would look at nightly
stuff.

Unfortunately, the last stable release of NitrOS9 occurred prior to
all the DW4 stuff, lots of important bugfixs and improvements, etc.
We end up in the situation where people have to use nightly builds to
gain access to features they want.  Yet another project that needs
some organization I guess.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Aaron, the Download page at the repo site is pretty stable (right now) thanks to Tormod. Everything I've checked is booting properly, games run, programs load. There's only a couple of issues with something not building but the downloads are good.
> This new batch has quite a few small bug fixes such so it is desirable to change over.
> Since the old batch was buggy, I was using a 3.2.9 build that I found somewhere that was pre-lwtools and actually worked. It was dated 2008.
> We really need people with the different hadrware to check the builds for their machines to see if it works properly.
> I can verify the Coco 1 2 & 3, L1& L2, DW3, Floppy & Becker all boot properly and the files on the disks run fine. This is the best build I've seen in 3 years.
> Admittedly, the descriptions on the download page need a good looking at and maybe a few corrections.
>
> In running the "Build Nitros9 using mingw", "mercurial", "toolshed", "lwtools", "nitros9" instructions on the wiki all go smoothly now thanks to you and Tormod (sometimes it pays off to complain).
> I can do a fresh pull & make with only a couple of minor errors that are insignificant to Nitros9. All the "Error 216" and "Error 218" as well as the "Out of resources" errors are gone.
> There's an error in the DAlpha build for "padrom"
> PacOS9 errors and doesn't build (did it ever?)
> and there's an error when it's making the nos9 disks in copying CCbKrn which (I think) was an attempt at a new kernel but abandoned as the old kernel is built but the CCbKrn copy cmd wasn't removed from the makefile in the dsk routines.
> All minor and all else seems to be good.
>
> 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: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:36 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Really not understanding how to use DW
>
>
> Yep, that page is a mess, i can see how you ended up using becker disks.
> The disks that end in 'dw.dsk' are what you want, or you can use the disks
> labeled 'for use with bitbanger' on the Drivewire 4 site.  They really dont
> belong on the dw4 site but i keep them there because the nightly builds are
> by nature prone to be broken or weird.
>  On Sep 30, 2013 1:26 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>
>> On this page the column on the right said "DriveWire 3/4" so I went with
>> becker.
>>
>> http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> > The becker disks are for devices or emulators using the becker interface.
>> > You want to use 'dw3' disks.
>> > On Sep 30, 2013 1:04 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ok, so everyone said go read the DW3 docs and do what they say but use
>> DW4.
>> >>
>> >> Here's what I do:
>> >>
>> >> CLOADM:EXEC on CoCo which loads hdbcc2.wav
>> >>
>> >> I get a boot screen that tells me HDB-DOS is loaded. On the DW4 I have
>> >> nos96809l1v030209coco2_becker.dsk loaded into Drive 0.
>> >>
>> >> I then type DOS. Then I get a screen that looks like this:
>> >>
>> >> http://i.imgur.com/Jj995yS.jpg
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Coco mailing list
>> >> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> >> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Coco mailing list
>> > Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> > http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>>
>> --
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco