[Coco] DECB development under OS9

Fri May 11 23:14:22 EDT 2018

Thanks for the comments guys.  Anyone care to comment upon whether an OS9 C program with minimal system calls could theoretically be patched/converted to run under DECB?  I’m thinking it might even be able to be run unpatched if you simply created an add-on that serviced the SWI in DECB. Of course, there would be a lot of system calls that simply wouldn’t make sense under DECB but it would seem like the stdin/stdout stuff could be made to work among some others.

Just an idea I was thinking of...

Dave

> On May 11, 2018, at 6:44 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
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> CocoSDC emulates the real thing, so I believe it will work fine with RSDOS as well (and Dave specifically asked about using it with CocoSDC). I think I actually tried it a long time ago too.
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>> Curtis, RSDOS only works with real disks and emulations of the wd1773. It will not work with DW4 or HDB/RGB dos partitions/dsks. Robert Gault's "HRSDOS" will do all of them. It's what I based the MShell RSDOS read/write code on.
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>> I think the RSDOS utility will do this already, so you could set that up in a script to copy to/from a DECB disk image directly.L. Curtis Boylecurtisboyle at sasktel.net> On May 11, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:> > I have a possible project that I'd like to get a little input on.  I would like to use NitrOS9 as my development platform for programs that will run under DECB.  The reason for this is that NitrOS9 is well suited in that it has plenty of disk space and several assembler options available.  It would be easy to include the headers inside of the source code for compatibility with the DECB LOADM format as I've already done this with a cross assembler under DOS/Windows.  I'm not really keen on the idea of having to develop on a PC, transfer the output file via drivewire to the CoCo, and test.> > I have a CoCo3 with 512K and I have CoCoSDC that has disk images for booting NitrOS9 as well as images for DECB.  What I was thinking is that I could write a utility program that runs under NitrOS9 that would allow me to copy files back and forth to one of the DECB disk images on the CoCoSDC. Maybe it has already been done.  Has anyone ever attempted this?  If not, is there anyone who would want to give me a little advice on how, theoretically, it might be done?> > I see there is a low level driver for the cocosdc and I'm wondering how difficult it would be to mount a DECB disk image and access the image as another drive under NitrOS9.  I realize that because of the difference in disk format the drive would not be natively read/writeable from NitrOS9 but as long as all of the virtual sectors were accessible then I could write a program to access the data/programs in the DECB file system.  So I guess I'm asking whether it would be feasible to mount one or more DECB disk images on the CoCoSDC as virtual drives; /SD1, /SD2, etc.> > This would allow me to write a program under NitrOS9, assemble it, copy the DECB format binary to the correct DECB image on the CoCoSDC, then reboot the computer 
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