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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

That’s a good idea, actually, especially since quite a few people have multiple SD cards, so that they can dedicate one to be a “NitrOS9 Card”. The reason I changed it from automatically booting is that some “casual” users (who just want to try it, or just play games, etc.) have the NitrOS9 drive images on the same card as bunch of DECB stuff, and they didn’t want the Coco to be taken over by NitrOS9 every time they turned their Coco on with the SDC plugged in.
If someone wants to upload such an image withe autoboot all set up, and makes it quite clear that this will take you Coco over once you install it, we would be fine with that.


L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On May 16, 2020, at 9:58 AM, mpacan at flutterball.com wrote:
> 
>   Kevin,
>   What might be even better is if you could just make a copy (zip) of
>   your entire SD card, with the Nitros9 EOU and autoboot files already
>   created, and this could then just be potentially saved to the Color
>   Computer Archive site, so anyone could just download it and place it on
>   a SD, then it would really be an Ease of Use autobooting edition.  Just
>   a thought, I would try it.
>   On May 15, 2020 5:01 PM, Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org> wrote:
> 
>     Sorry, my steps got kinda mangled because I had HTML email enabled
> 
>     - 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  (or0=63SDC.VHD for 6309 CPU)
>     1=EOU_USER.VHD
>     - insert the SD card inyour 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