[Coco] /NIL device

[Kandur]

Thank you very much, Bill.

Kandur

Friday, August 15, 2014, 12:18:07 PM, you wrote:
> Here is where.  I only have Kwikgen & Ded on this disk image but it works.

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d9sgoiutti78n5/Utils.dsk?dl=0

> Bill Nobel

>> On Aug 15, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Chester Patterson <chester6809 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Lo! And where might the uninitiated find such wondrous apparatus?

>> Chester
>> Costa Rica
>> TI2/KJ4HLT

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Nobel [mailto:b_nobel at hotmail.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:21 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] /NIL device

>> All three of those are a must for the person that want’s to play with boot files easily. Ya Allan did speed up ded, but kwikzap was faster.

>> Bill Nobel

>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:07 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:

>>> And Kwikzap was a nice match. I really like DED, but the direct screen 
>>> writes in Kwikzap made it quite fast. (DED became much faster after 
>>> Alan initiated "block writes" between SCF and Grfdrv...)

>>> L. Curtis Boyle
>>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net



>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Yes your right Curtis, I still to this day use kwikgen to make any of my boot files.  It is the fastest and best program for boot files we found at the time.

>>>> Bill Nobel

>>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:49 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:

>>>>> As a side note... Bill Nobel and I used this *extensively* in making the original OS-9. It was a utility sold by Wes Gale (and Gale Force Enterprises... the first distributor of NitrOS-9).
>>>>> Much faster then EZGEN and any of the others we tried.

>>>>> L. Curtis Boyle
>>>>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net



>>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> Hi Kandur,

>>>>>> I use a programme called Kwikgen to add modules to my OS9Boot file. It is very easy to use, and I used it just a couple of days ago to add nil.dd and vrn.dr to my OS9Boot file.

>>>>>> If you have it, just start Kwikgen
>>>>>> Then 'L' to load the boot file, it will ask which drive.
>>>>>> Then 'I' to insert.
>>>>>> It will ask where to insert it (after which module in the list).
>>>>>> then it will ask for the module directory where the modules can be found.
>>>>>> Do that for both nil.dd and vrn.dr
>>>>>> Then 'W' to write the os9boot file.
>>>>>> Answer 'N' to the question about track 34.
>>>>>> Then 'Q' to quit.

>>>>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>>>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia

>>>>>> On 15/08/2014 12:45 PM, Kandur wrote:
>>>>>>> What is the easiest way to add the /NIL device, to a running NitrOs-9 L2 session?
>>>>>>> I found nil.dd in the modules/scf directory, but it is not listed 
>>>>>>> with mdir, can't redirect to >/nil either. I know, I could make a new bootdisk, but....

>>>>>>> Kandur



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