[Coco] Trying to boot nitros-9 in mess (linux)

[Robert Gault]

Matías Gutiérrez wrote:
> Thanks a lot Tormod! That look pretty promising.
> I've just downloaded toolshed and build it. Now I have this fistful of
> files:
>
> dw3dos.asm      dw3doscc1.wav   dw3doscc2.wav   dw3doscc3.wav
> dw3dos_dsk_cc3.rom  dw3dos_mb_cc3.rom  dw4doscc2.wav   dw4doscc3.wav
> dw4dos_mb_cc2.rom
> dw3doscc1.bin   dw3doscc2.bin   dw3doscc3.bin   dw3dos_dsk_cc1.rom
> dw3dos_mb_cc1.rom   dw4doscc2.bin      dw4doscc3.bin   dw4dos_dsk_cc2.rom
> dw4dos_mb_cc3.rom
> dw3dos_cc1.trk  dw3dos_cc2.trk  dw3dos_cc3.trk  dw3dos_dsk_cc2.rom
> dw3dos_mb_cc2.rom   dw4dos_cc2.trk     dw4dos_cc3.trk  dw4dos_dsk_cc3.rom
> Makefile
>
> I presume .wav are the audio files, just for curiosity's sake what are
> those .rom and .trk?
> Now I going to research how to boot nitros-9 from dw once dwdos is loaded
> in ram.
>
> Thanks
>
> 2015-11-04 8:54 GMT-03:00 Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>:
>

Matías,

Take a good look at dw3dos.asm. :) The comments at the start of the file explain 
for what ROM and TRK files are.
If you are not familiar with the DOS track on a Coco disk, that is track-34 
(0-34). When you want to start OS-9/NitrOS-9, you will either use the DOS 
command or an ml program to load and execute the code on track-34.

Since you don't have a floppy drive, you want the .wav file. Play it on a PC and 
feed it into the Coco cassette port or if you have a tape recorder save the file 
on tape and send that to the Coco cassette input.
That will load the dw3dos code into memory and permit you to read disk images 
mounted in Drivewire on the PC. You will also have the DOS command with which to 
boot NitrOS-9 from a disk mounted in Drivewire.

Robert