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

[Matías Gutiérrez]

Thanks a lot Tormod. I'm looking forward to get my hands on my old coco and
test it.
Yesterday night I couldn't find the files already build. You're right they
are there
http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/files/ToolShed/ToolShed%202.1/dwdos-toolshed-2.1.zip/download

Regards,
Matias

2015-11-05 8:31 GMT-03:00 Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > 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:
>
> For anyone else reading along, there is no need to build toolshed
> yourself. The download area has a dwdos zip file with all the dwdos
> flavours prebuilt.
>
> >> I presume .wav are the audio files, just for curiosity's sake what are
> >> those .rom and .trk?
>
> The .rom files are for burning to a cartridge ROM. The _mb rom files
> are for replacing the BASIC ROMs, if you never use BASIC and would
> like to save the cartridge port/MPI slot/controller ROM socket.
>
> >> Now I going to research how to boot nitros-9 from dw once dwdos is
> loaded
> >> in ram.
>
> Just have the NitrOS-9 disk image (dw flavour) loaded into the first
> slot on the DriveWire server and type:
>
> EXEC
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Yes, the TRK files are for floppies, so of less use, and of no use in
> this case. The advantage of having DWDOS on the floppy boot track,
> compared to using a NitrOS-9 boot floppy, is that you load even the
> kernel and boot track over DriveWire, so no need to rewrite floppies
> after updating any of NitrOS-9.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> To clarify, DWDOS is equivalent to the DOS command in disk basic
> (except of course it only boots over DriveWire). It is not a DOS, and
> it doesn't let you read anything else on the disk images on the
> DriveWire server (other than their boot tracks).
>
> Tormod
>
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