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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I will add some of your text to the documentation file as well. Should get released with 5.1 goes out (which is mainly bug fixes and a few new features), rather than waiting until 6.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On May 16, 2020, at 9:38 PM, Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org> wrote:
> 
> I was only trying to help improve the docs a little bit, but if you
> think it's helpful to provide autoboot enabled images I'm happy to
> contribute.  I submitted two zip files for 6309 and 6809 CPUs to the
> archive.  I added some warnings that they should be used on dedicated
> SD cards in the description and an additional README.TXT file as well.
> 
> On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 15:36 -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>> 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 Boylecurtisboyle 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
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