[Coco] ANNOUNCE: NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 released

[Bill Pierce]

Chad, as far as I know, the NitrOS9 "turbo" driver sources still have not been worked on. I assume they worked at one time, but now need to be updated to reflect the changes made in the "normal" drivers. Other than the small changes needed to work with LWAsm, the only other changes would be the "conditionals" that have been added/changed  to the repo. The last I looked at these sources, the conditional statements were all in matching about NOS9 3.2.8 format (CVS/ToolShed). Also, the newer dwread/write sources have a few extra routines added... maybe there is more work to be done than I originally thought LOL


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 7:56 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ANNOUNCE: NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 released


Did this release implement "Turbo Mode" for DriveWire 4?

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Christopher R. Hawks
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 7:37 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] ANNOUNCE: NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 released

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:51:45 +0200
Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear NitrOS-9 users and developers,
> 
> We have the great pleasure of announcing the availability of the
> NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 release. NitrOS-9 is an open-source operating system 
> for 6809-based computers (Dragon and TRS-80/Tandy Color Computers in 
> particular), and is compatible with OS-9 from MicroWare.
> 
> With the last proper release V3.2.8 being almost 6 years ago, it is 
> more than time to get the numerous new features, bug fixes and other 
> cleanups into the hands of everyone. A version 3.2.9 was close to be 
> released in late 2009 but instead more feature additions, rework and 
> infrastructure changes ensued, and only development versions have been 
> circulating since. The new version has been bumped to 3.3.0 both to 
> avoid confusion with unofficial 3.2.9 builds and to reflect the amount 
> of work going into this release. The V3.3.0 release provides a solid, 
> common base for users, application developers and NitrOS-9 developers 
> to continue work on and develop for their favourite operating system.
> 
> Source code and prebuilt disk images can be downloaded from the
> NitrOS-9 project at SourceForge:
> 
>          
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/v3.3.0/
> 
> Documentation can be found in the NitrOS-9 wiki at
> 
>          http://www.nitros9.org
> 
> For bug reports and feature requests please use the ticket tracker at
> 
>          http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/
> 
> Most NitrOS-9 users and developers hang out at the CoCo mailing list:
> 
>          http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> 
> 
> >From the V3.3.0 ChangeLog (covering the last year's changes):
> 
> - CoHR: Now supports COVDG control codes (Ken H.)
> - New MinTED - Minimalist Text Editor (Luis Antoniosi)
> - rb1773: Make 48 TPI floppy disks readonly in 96 TPI drives
>   (Robert Gault and Gene Heskett)
> - rbdesc/superdesc: Raise default SAS from $8 to $10 (Gene)
> - Gene's myram RAM disk driver renamed to MRAM and included
>   on L2 disk images
> - Dragon: Working disk images again (Tormod Volden)
> - Fixed ROM boot images (Tormod)
> - Added CoCo SDC driver (Boisy Pitre)
> - Added CoCo Deluxe port (Boisy)
> 
> 3rdparty:
> - King's Quest 4: Many updates (Guillaume Major)
> - New utils disk with Gene's bootlink and vfy utilities
> - Pacos9: Brough back to life (Tormod)
> 
> General:
> - Major cleanup of Makefiles and build infrastructure (Tormod)
> - Everything now builds with lwtools (Tormod)
> - Most (all?) things in shape again after lwtools transition
>   (Tormod, David Ladd, Bob Devries)
> 
> Additionally, since the V3.2.8 release massive work has been done over 
> the years, especially by Boisy Pitre, David Ladd, William Astle, 
> Robert Gault, Aaron Wolfe on new features such as DriveWire support, 
> SuperDriver, hardware ports and misc driver fixes.
> 
> 
> On the behalf of all NitrOS-9 developers, Tormod

Tormod:

    I too say many thanks for your efforts! Also to all the active
contributors!


Christopher R. Hawks
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