[Coco] Error in Sourceforge NitrOS-9/level2/coco3_6309/scripts/mb.dw

[Tormod Volden]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
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> Tormod, since we're on the subject of the boot modules, I've noticed that once a Dragon disk is created with the repo, the modules in the resulting disk contain descriptors with no drivers. These are the modules in "nitros9/6809L2/modules/scf" folder on the disks.
> The descriptors are all of the "xx_sc6551.dt" descriptors as there are no "xx_sc6551.dr" drivers to suport them, so therefore no boots could be made with these descriptors.
> I have no idea is a 6551 (acia) driver is built for Dragon, but if it is, it needs to be added to the scf list to be copied to the disk to support the descriptors.

Thanks for the heads-up. The descriptors are wrong for Dragon anyway,
because of their hardware address. There is a separate Dragon sc6551
driver source file, but I don't know if the CoCo one can be used
instead.

My Dragon 32 doesn't have an ACIA so I haven't looked into this. But I
hope NitrOS-9 will interest more Dragon users. Or as of lately, more
NitrOS-9 users are buying Dragons :)

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> You, being a Dragon user, would know more of this than I do.
> I am currently working on a "boot creation system" that will create boot disks for "ANY" nitros9 system, but the utility will only run on a Coco 3 512k Level 2 system. It was in laying out the module database for the boot modules that I noticed that these descriptors have no drivers on the disks.

This sounds very useful. For those without a CoCo3 I hope it will be
possible to run it in VCC and transfer the boot disk images to the
real thing.

> Also, there is an 80 col term descriptor that has no driver as well. I assume it's for a hardware 80 col card of sorts.

Which one is that?

Regards,
Tormod