[Coco] NitrOS-9 EOU (Ease of Use) Beta 5 released

[Kevin Becker]

I decided to try out the autoexec functionality today and set up a
dedicated SD card to autoboot right into NitrOS9 with the data VHD
automounted as well.  This is a really cool feature and works
great.  It really changes the "feel" of booting up my CoCo to have it
go right into a more powerful OS.
I'd offer a little feedback for the beginner's documentation.  The doc
states that you can automount the disk images and rename the basic
program to autoexec.bas but as a beginner, it took me a little googling
to actually make that happen.  It'd be nice to have a little section
that calls this feature out more directly, because it is cool, and
lists the steps.
- copy EOU_USER.VHD and 68SDC.VHD (or 63SDC.VHD for a 6309 CPU) to the
root of your SD card- create a text file called STARTUP.CFG in the root
of your SD card with the following lines:	0=68SDC.VHD  (or
0=63SDC.VHD for 6309 CPU)	1=EOU_USER.VHD- insert the SD card in
your CoCoSDC and power on the CoCo- enter DRIVES to verify both disk
images are mounted- enter RENAME "AUTO.BAS" TO "AUTOEXEC.BAS"- power
off and back on your CoCo and you should boot directly into NitrOS9



On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 12:32 -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> I think you might be one of the first to actually read through the
> whole thing! ;)
> Sent from my iPhone
> > On May 1, 2020, at 12:20 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
> > wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:11 PM L. Curtis Boyle <
> > curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > > Please feel free to send feedback, bug reports, etc. to my email
> > > below, or to the #nitros9eou channel on the Tandy Color Computer
> > > (Coco) Discord server. Any questions can be directed to myself,
> > > or Bill Nobel, or the NitrOS-9 Facebook group, or the #nitros9eou
> > > channel on Discord as well.
> > 
> > Curtis, Bill and Team:
> > I just finished reading the release notes and I really want
> > tocongratulate you all for this effort. Greatly appreciated!
> > 
> > -- --tim lindner
> > "Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says."
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> >