[Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for asking.  I’ve mostly tried things out of the Color Computer Archive.

I now have Colossal Cave working.  And also King’s Quest I is working, but since I do not have the directions, and I also do not have a joystick (!) I have a hard time guessing what keyboard key combinations actually do anything.

I was unsuccessful with Dynacalc.  The Dynacalc .dsk image will not boot on its own on the CoCo3FPGA - not a big surprise.  But I have not been able to get it to go from drive 1.  I am thinking that what I may have to do is copy all the Dynacalc stuff onto a good bootable CoCo3FPGA NitrOS-9 .dsk image, and then give it a go again.

I think that someone else may have chimed in with a note about not all NitrOS-9 boot disks act the same with the CoCo3FPGA.

Otherwise than that, I also have seen some comments from Nick Marentes indicating that not all games are working with the CoCo3FPGA yet.  I am probably being stung by that, as well.

Thanks very much for all your attention.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Oct 3, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> 
> Also, which applications, specifically, don't seem to work?  For me _most_ of the applications for OS9 DO work!
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> Dave
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> On 10/3/2015 2:24 PM, Stephen Pereira wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am having a blast experimenting with my CoCo3FPGA.  Since I now have a beautiful VGA display that displays 80 character lines clearly, I have been able to renew my experiments with NitrOS-9.
>> 
>> I can boot and run NitrOS-9.  I have installed BASIC09.  I have tried a variety of applications for OS-9, but most (if not all) do not seem to work.  I am chalking this up to CoCo3FPGA running Drivewire, and the applications seem to really want real disk drives.
>> 
>> I have been able to type in a small variety of my programs in BASIC and get them to run under BASIC09.
>> 
>> But…  What if I have a significant size source code file in assembler or BASIC?  I do not want to type it all in again!
>> 
>> For example, I have the Talbot Microsystems source code for Color Forth.  I typed this all in by hand, and I worked with it in Robert Gault’s EDTASM6309, under DECB.  What if I want to get this large source code file into NitrOS-9?
>> 
>> On other vintage computer systems I have, I can use Kermit, or a home-grown program called PCGET, to transfer files from my external laptop PC that I am using as a terminal.  What tool(s) does one use to perform this same operation under NitrOS-9?
>> 
>> My primary goal would be to move large source code files (ASCII files) into NitrOS-9, so I can then use the assembler, or use them in BASIC09.
>> 
>> Thanks for listening and letting me know what you do.
>> 
>> smp
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>> Stephen M. Pereira
>> Bedford, NH  03110
>> KB1SXE
>> 
>> 
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